I'm sure a lot of the guys here use either Cacti or Nagios for monitoring and managing their systems. Anybody here ever heard or tried Pandora? I was just randomly reading some things and came across this and seems interesting.
According to their site:
Pandora is a monitoring application to watch systems and applications, that allows to know the status of any element of your systems, watch for your hardware, your software, your multilayer system and of course your Operating System. Pandora could detect a network interface down, a defacement in your website, a memory leak in one of your server, or the movement of any value of the NASDAQ new technology market. If you want, Pandora could sent a SMS message when your systems fails... or when Google value low below US$ 330. Pandora will adjust, like an octopus, to your systems and requirements, because has been designed to be open, modular, multiplattform and easy to customize and use, all integrated into a scalable and distributed architecture. Pandora runs on any operating system, with specific agents for each platform gathering data and sending it to a server. Pandora can also monitor any kind of TCP/IP service, without need to install agents, and monitor network systems such as load balancers, routers, switches, operating systems, applications, or simply printers if you need. Pandora also supports SNMP for collecting data and for receiving traps. A few examples of common resources monitored by Pandora could be processor load, disk and memory usage, running processes, log files, environmental factors such as temperature, or application values like strings contained in web pages or any possible way to collect data in an automatic way.
Pandora has specific agents for GNU/Linux, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, BSD/IPSO, and Windows 2000, XP and 2003. Seems like an attractive package don't you think? I might download this later until I'm a bit free. But for now, it's relegated to my bookmarks 'Check out Later'. :) http://pandora.sourceforge.net/en/index.php?sec=main Regards! -- "A dog that has no bite, barks loudest." Registered Linux User #400165 Subscribed to: LARTC, Open-ITLUG, PRUG, KLUG, sybase.public.ase.linux
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