Re: [lpi-examdev] LPI 200.2 and collectd

2016-02-23 Thread Simone Piccardi
Il 23/02/2016 13:01, Simone Piccardi ha scritto: > right to put in the test any specific question about any specific > monitor tool. Ops sorry, s/monitor tool/monitoring system/. Simone -- Simone Piccardi Truelite Srl picca...@truelite.it (email/jabber)

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPI 200.2 and collectd

2016-02-22 Thread kenneth
Hi all, Let's get scientific instead of jabbing: Softwares by popularity (by_inst, debian popularity contest, http://popcon.debian.org/ [1] ): #rank name Setups 3689 munin-node 11385 3719 nagios-plugins-basic 11171 4829 zabbix-agent 6267 6049 monitoring-plugins-common 4282 8105

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPI 200.2 and collectd

2016-02-22 Thread kenneth
Hi all, A 2016-02-22 20:43, Anselm Lingnau escrigué: > kenn...@floss.cat wrote: > >> My support for munin as easy & nice-looking capacity planning + Icinga >> (as nagios successor) for monitoring. > > We can probably bikeshed this until the cows come home. Sure, that's why I don't want to

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPI 200.2 and collectd

2016-02-22 Thread Kenneth Peiruza
lpi-examdev mailing list." <lpi-examdev@lpi.org> Assumpte: Re: [lpi-examdev] LPI 200.2 and collectd I agree that collectd wouldn't be the first thing that comes my mind either... I wouldn't dare to suggest Nagios or Icinga being part of an LPIC-2 exam as both could easily fill an ex

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPI 200.2 and collectd

2016-02-22 Thread Fabian Thorns
I agree that collectd wouldn't be the first thing that comes my mind either... I wouldn't dare to suggest Nagios or Icinga being part of an LPIC-2 exam as both could easily fill an exam on their own. I see that topic more about getting an idea of which kind of properties exist and how to measure

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPI 200.2 and collectd

2016-02-22 Thread Bryan J Smith
Bryan J Smith wrote: > These types of objectives will always be difficult to keep "Scope Creep" > from entering. that said ... > Sorry, ​"Send" hit. Continuing ... ​Ultimately, the context is "Capacity Planning." So we're actual talking about collecting statistics. So

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPI 200.2 and collectd

2016-02-22 Thread Bryan J Smith
These types of objectives will always be difficult to keep "Scope Creep" from entering. that said ... On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Anselm Lingnau < anselm.lingnau+exam...@linupfront.de> wrote: > kenn...@floss.cat wrote: > > > My support for munin as easy & nice-looking capacity planning +

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPI 200.2 and collectd

2016-02-22 Thread Anselm Lingnau
kenn...@floss.cat wrote: > My support for munin as easy & nice-looking capacity planning + Icinga > (as nagios successor) for monitoring. We can probably bikeshed this until the cows come home. The advantage of collectd is that it is small, it measures the most important things, and it is

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPI 200.2 and collectd

2016-02-22 Thread kenneth
I've never unserstood it either. After asking 160 LPIC2 students, about collectd, just 1 knew about it. He told me he had used it in backbone routers, because it was lightweight and coded in ansi-C, so it can be compiled in every platform. However... this is LPIC and monitoring tools like