[nycbug-talk] Monitoring programs

[Francisco Reyes]

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Marc Spitzer wrote:

> now for service monitoring/trending take a look at smokeping, dont
> know if it is in ports though.

Interesting package.

> Also most monitoring solutions use snmp, you may or may not want that
> to be turned on.

Given that I don't know the status of the firewall on all these machines, 
for now I want easy/safe solutions.


> And while rrd, cricket & smokeping etc, is way cool it does result in
> data loss by design.

What do you mean? They only show the current status?

> You may just want to stick data in postgress or
> sqlite and crunch what you want out of it

Today is "learn mysql" day, but plan tomorrow to take a look at the 
mentioned packages.. although I am tempted to just capture the output of 
df, du and "w" for now and dump it into a PostgreSQL database for now.. 
until I really have time to go through each fo the packages people 
suggested.

Of the packages mentioned (criket, nagios, big brother) any suggestions as 
to which one is relatively easy AND secure?