These are the back-end tools. You'll find many products for managing sizeable infrastructures build on these.
I like Munin, but have my suspicions about the load it induces - perhaps it needs to be run nice. Cacti is quite network-equipment focused. Nagios is nicely service-oriented, and there's a plugin to store long-term data into cacti IIRC Statscout is used by one of my customers, for network stuff If all you need is server load and a couple of custom things, on a small population of servers, you're probably well advised to stick with RRD datastores and MRTG to present them. If you need a more detailed application-level health, use Nagios to look in from the outside, and consider the free-as-in-beer-as-long-as-you're-only-having-one Splunk to get access to your logging data. Otherwise just logcheck to get the exceptions. -jim On 02/08/07, Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know of anything better than these tools to monitor server loads > and the like? Not that I'm denigrating Tobias's work in any way, it's just > that I've been using these for 10 years or so, and may have missed out on > something newer! > > Cheers, Steve > >
