I have just built a debian 5 file server that's also going to host some VMs for me. I'll be building a second file server soon, and I'm going to have some hosted VMs as well.
There's a lot of monitoring software out there and I'm not sure what to use. I'd like to use the simplest system possible that can do the following: Features: + Email notifications on critical events (that I can specify) + Overview of all systems being monitored showing current status Monitoring: Critical: * status of software RAID6 array (eg. if any drive fails, even if a hot spare is available) * usage % of various partitions * monitor the status of my VMs (I intend to use virtualbox) * monitor the status of backups (haven't yet determined what system I'll be using) Desirable: * monitor my UPS + trigger shutdowns in VMs and then main system if power goes out. Future: * monitor web logs on servers for hits, usage, etc. * monitor security related logs on servers. Will it be simpler to use multiple tools, or is there some giant swiss army knife that it's worth learning? Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
