>> I've got a trial install of icinga in place but I'm holding off while >> management looks at M/S Ops Manager. Any comments on Ops Manager as a >> monitoring tool for Solaris/Linux? > Isn't that the wrong list for questions targetting some microsoft > commercial license foo you pay money for even installing it?
Comparison of monitoring tools? Multiple departments, multiple overlapping tools. >> Also, what's the best path to pursue for graphing of all variables being >> checked? We're currently using Orca with orcallator/procollator for >> Solaris/Linux which only gives us graphs and trend analysis and then scripts >> for disk space etc. It would be nice to switch to a single installation such >> as Icinga for everything including graphical alarm monitoring for anyone >> with access to the map. > if your plugins provide performance data from plugin output on checks, > you may use that data and stash it onto tools like pnp4nagios, ingraph, > graphite, etc which then may generate nice graphs for your dashboard or > reporting. i guess there's plenty of plugin already available for unix > and linux, not only provided by the official nagios plugins. have a look > at monitoringexchange.org e.g. if not, hack one yourself, following the > plugin api (check the icinga docs for details on that). I'm not looking to monitor exchange or windows services although if I could show that I can monitor windows servers to a somewhat comparable level as Ops Manager with an opensource pricing model that would be interesting :-) Thanks for the list of tools. I found the icinga page with a short description of each. Considering the per-requistites it's probably easiest to start with Nagiosgraph. Don ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ icinga-users mailing list icinga-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/icinga-users