Chet, I don't have any windows machines, all the hosts I monitor are linux or OpenBSD. I have 2 zenoss installations, they are all working fine for the most part. I do have some broken graphs but that is a subject to another post. Zenoss does provide a nice view of software inventory on rpm based linux installations and it is definitely a plus but I am starting to look for application layer metrics: apache, tomcat and vmware come to mind. Another reason I am evaluating alternatives is the ldap integration which is promised in 2.2 or something but has been pushed back several times and finally: if all my systems are in the monitoring system, it would have been great to be able to "do" things to these systems on a large scale. using zope makes some things pretty flexible and other things pretty damn hard like getting the data in the zodb FAST not via REST or XMLRPC. zodb is _slow_
I am going to do an eval install of hyperic and see how it goes. the big "-" in my mind right now is "java/tomcat" so the CLI plugin needs to be pretty powerful to make up for that.I will share my findings with the list if you/list are interested On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 02:54 +0000, cluther wrote: > I haven't tried Hyperic myself, but maybe more people would jump in here if > you could provide more detail on what kind of information you're trying to > get out of your equipment. > > What information are you interested on the Workstations? One thing Zenoss > does very well is software inventory. It can pull the list of install > software from Windows system and organize it in very useful ways. > > You can use standard Windows server monitoring tools on your VMware hosts > (assuming they're Windows servers of course.) Such as Windows service > monitoring and event log monitoring via WMI, and performance > (CPU/RAM/Paging/Disk Utilization & Performance) with the SNMP Informant MIB > extension. > > This is just some starter information. What products works best for you all > depends on the kind of information you're interested in. I do believe you'll > find that Zenoss is the most flexible option. > > ------------------------ > Chet Luther > > > > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > Read this topic online here: > http://community.zenoss.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=6859#6859 > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > zenoss-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users -- Mohamed Hussein http://www.unixgarage.com _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
