On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:58:51 -0700 (PDT), Christopher Baus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The best that I have used is Nagios (formerly Netsaint). > > > > I have also used BMC Patrol however and Nagios isn't quite on par with > > that type of commercial software. But, it is free. > > I use nagios to monitor about 30-50 servers. It is pretty good, but it > can take a while to get its dependency tree right. There is no UI to > configure it. You have to edit all the config files manually, and there > are A LOT! > > It has a plugin architecture based on calling out to another process. > This works out ok, and I've even used it to monitor custom applications. > It can also be peered to solve the "who's monitoring the monitor" problem. > > The unfortunate part is I now have to carry a cell and I get SMS messages > when something horrible happens. > > It is really a cost vs time and skill question. If you have more Unix > admin skills and time than money it is a reasonable choice. > > -- > Christopher Baus > http://www.baus.net/ > Tahoe, Wine, and Linux. > >
I have not used any of these but there are several 3rd party open source web based admin interfaces for Nagios. http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=183&expand=false&showdesc=false _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
