Brian: We are using Nagios to monitor our 1850's and 2900's (a dozen or so machines running Ubuntu or FreeeBSD). It took me quite a while to get my mind around all of the ways that things could be done and what would work for us.
I started working seriously with Nagios in March, and, working around other demands on my time, I am pretty happy with the results. For each node, we do proactive is-alive, health, and performance checks and have SNMP traps configured for reactive issue capture. We use public services (ping, http, etc.), snmp queries, and nrpe based local plugins to do many of the checks. We use OMSA for the is-alive check and to capture issues and transmit (via SNMP traps) things like RAID degradation info. We are using NagiosGrapher to do all of the graphing (temperature, network usage, disk usage, load, etc.). As well, I am monitoring cluster quorum. As one of the "cool" things, each OMSA enabled node has a link in Nagios to the OMSA page, so drill-down-to-detail is one click away when you look at a host issue. Nagios, with the solid architecture and rich pool of plug-ins/add-ons is very powerful and flexible. However, this is a noteable learning curve to "get it right". HTH Stewart -----Original Message----- From: "Brian O'Mahony" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 13:09:11 To: Eric Rostetter<[email protected]>; Jason Edgecombe<[email protected]> Cc: [email protected]<[email protected]> Subject: RE: IPMI Ive been mucking about with nagios for the last few months. I was looking at op5 (ninja+merlin) and it looks nice, but to incorporate graphing etc, it seems you either need to hack the cfg files or purchase the paid version. >From what I can see these features are included in opsview and centreon. My question is this, people with experience of either/both, which would you recommend? B -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Rostetter Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 5:14 PM To: Jason Edgecombe Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: IPMI Quoting Jason Edgecombe <[email protected]>: > Would you please list a couple of these nagios-based systems? Preferably > open-source. Groundwork OpenSource (GWOS) Community Edition Opsview Centreon Others I can't remember off the top of my head... > Thanks, > Jason -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns! _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended addressee please contact the sender and dispose of this e-mail. Thank you. _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
