In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NMS software for snmp-based network...:
What NMSes are you using, any that will run in OI?
OI has packages for Zabbix, which is what I would call a traditional monitoring solution. It can do both server-initiated monitors (polling) and client-initiated monitors. I don't know if the OI one is compiled with SNMP support (that's optional), but you could find out quickly by installing the package and then starting the service and looking in the log file. When I was evaluating monitoring solutions for work 4 years ago, I actually ended up choosing Zabbix, and we've been using it ever since. There were a few reasons why I chose it (at the time) over things like Nagios, Xenoss Core, or Munin: - Our Windows admins didn't have to edit Linux-based config files to set up new probes (items) or alerts (triggers) -- that can all be done through the web-based GUI. - It has one supported and relatively decent web interface (rather than 10 different, partially implemented ones -- I'm looking at you, Nagios) - It has very good support for Windows (in addition to Linux & UNIX) - The documentation was very good and the main docs covered everything I needed to do -- I didn't have to hunt through documentation scattered everywhere. - Its templates were fairly powerful and mostly easy to use, so it was easy to set up e.g. a "base linux system in Datacenter X" template and apply it widely and get all the same basic probes, alerts, etc. - Its API is easy to use and pretty complete. One thing to keep in mind -- monitoring has changed a *lot* in the last four years. Packages like graphite had only rudimentary support for alerting when I was doing my search 4 years ago. Prometheus barely existed 4 years ago. Tim -- Tim Mooney tim.moo...@ndsu.edu Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure 701-231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J6, Quentin Burdick Building 701-231-8541 (Fax) North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164 _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
