On 10 August 2010 02:28, Jiri B. <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm thinking to choose a monitoring tool which would run on OpenBSD > of course. > > I have been working with Tivoli and Netview for couple of years so my > idea is: > > * clients > > - heartbeats of course > - simple interface to give a client some input as alert > - text configuration on client node (can be pushed from central repo) > - light > > * infrastructure nodes > > - proxy feature for far networks or dmz > - filtering rules (thresholds, time filters ...) > - text configuration > - light > > * main server(s) > > - good filtering > - surveillance console for monitoring center > - be able to change status of an alert (acknowledge, closed, solved...) > - be able to have some categories of clients based on roles > > I'm watching zabbix... not sure... > > If I wouldn't want event console I would probably check snmp -> sec -> > snmptt. > > jirib > >
Definitely nagios/cacti pair or zabbix. Having used nagios for a year or so, i would never want to get back to Tivoli. It also gives you lots of flexibility in how you setup your monitoring, and can neatly work with snmp as well. Eugene -- The best the little guy can do is what the little guy does right
