[nycbug-talk] Monitoring programs

[Rick Aliwalas]

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Francisco Reyes wrote:

> Going through the ports see a whole batch of monitoring packages. Any 
> recommendations?
>
> In particular looking to monitor disk, memory and a couple of directories.

You might check into http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/ .  It's the
an evolution of Big Brother.

-rick

>
> So far I see on ports
> cfgstoragemk-1.0_1
> MRTG configuration generator for storage monitoring via SNMP
>
> cricket-1.0.5_1
> A high performance, extremely flexible monitoring system
>
> nagios-1.2_2,1
> Extremely powerful network monitoring system
>
> nocol-4.3_1
> Network/Service monitoring software
>
> nocol-4.3_1
> Network/Service monitoring software
>
> Going throug archives see different comments recommending different options, 
> but nothing conclusive...
>
> Thinking of rolling my own scrits, but figure it was worth checking first.
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