On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Matt Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote: > I have recently started a new job, that's why I'm asking questions here. > > I need to deploy some sort of performance monitoring tools across a few > hundred systems. In addition to the usual system performance stats, I > would like to find a set of tools that will easily allow me to collect and > display various application level information. These are systems doing > lots of real time transaction processing, so being able to see the graphs > of what the applications are doing in sync with the system graphs would be > a very good thing. > > The management structure here is that I am on the sysadmin team which does > not do anything with the applications. So, being able to integrate the > data collection will make my life easier and make the application support > folks happier. > > I'm comfortable programming in C, Ruby & Perl, so writing additional code > to support monitoring is not a big worry.
I've been evaluating Zenoss and it does a fairly good job of integrating system monitoring and performance gathering. It's possible to show all the graphs on one page. I've found it's pretty easy to make my own metric gathering scripts and have the data imported into the system. The only thing is that it doesn't really do historical/trending performance. You may want to look at the new SAGE booklet Running the Numbers: System, Network, and Environmental Monitoring [0]. It does a good job of going over the basics and supplying links to some tools. -Anthony [0] http://www.sage.org/pubs/20_numbers/20_numbers.html _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
