Oh - I forgot. Nagios let me do my whole check-through-ssh thing. meaning: I put the nagios-plugins somewhere on the remote machines and create a nagios user on each. Configure key authentication for this user on all the machines. Then I configured nagios to check_by_ssh all the things I wanted checked. Configuration would have killed me had I not used the Groundwork Framework.
On 8/9/07, Mike Tewner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've worked with tons of programs that do this - none of them have > filled all my requirements. One thing, though - I didin't want to rely > on SNMP - My ultimate solution would be a system that will ssh to a > machine and run commands, process the output. > > In no particular order: > > 1. Monit is good for status - not history. If you want to know what's > running NOW, or get en email when disk usage goes above 80% - things > that can be checked remotely (ping, HTTP/S, Mysql) then monit is > great. No pretty graphs, though. > 2. Nagios is the best for all-around monitoring - but configuration is > a pain. Installing the Groundwork framework makes this a cinch, though > installing groundwork itself is slightly painful and pretty invasive > on the host machine. If you have a machine to dedicate to this, this > is probably the best solution for most cases. > 3. mrtg is good, especially if all your devices speak SNMP. It's cute > an simple - you cron a perl script to run every, say, 5 minutes. It > outputs a bunch of graphs. I don't think it does warnings/emails, etc. > 4. Orcallator. Some large companies I know use this. I tried it once - > I seem to remeber that I liked it, though I couldn't online any of the > features that I thought I liked :-) > 5. Zabbix - Very robust, but requires their agents to be installed on > all non SMTP machines. If you are willing to do this, then this is a > Great option. Really - Zabbix is a mature system that works great. > 6. Zenoss - compatible with nagios plugins. I would say this solution > reminds me of a mach-up of zabbix and nagios. > 7. Cacti - Non recommended. I don't remember why. > > > > On 8/9/07, Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oren Held wrote: > > > A friend of mine (Amnon) found Munin (http://munin.projects.linpro.no/), > > > which > > > is a great system resource grapher tool which has plugins for almost > > > everything from swap, ntp time drifts, disk temperature - to mysql queries > > > per second. > > > > > > However, it draws graphs, I'm not sure it can send alerts. You can set > > > limits > > > (like highest cpu temperature or free disk space) which tag the whole node > > > as "red", maybe it's even capable of notifying.. worth a check I guess. > > > > > I don't know about alerts, but I find that it is the best tool I know > > for getting the "general health" of a system. That is something no graph > > specific test can tell you, because it often involves measurements you > > did not think of before they happened. > > > > For anyone who is interested in seeing it in action, Hamakor's new > > server has it running, open for all to see: http://hamakor.org.il/munin/ > > > > Shachar > > > > ================================================================= > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
