[nycbug-talk] favourite monitoring tools

[jeffrey.arnold]

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, pete wright wrote:

:: On 11/22/05, Dru <dlavigne6 at sympatico.ca> wrote:
:: >
:: > Experiences good/bad with Bigsister, Nagios and Zabbix also appreciated.
:: > The client needs to manage just over 100 systems, a mix of routers, switches
:: > and servers.
:: >

(snip)
:: 
:: So, I'd give Nagios a +1 despite the some things I'd like to change
:: from a configuration management perspective.  It also seems to full
:: fill all of your prerequisites.
:: 

I'll second nagios. At my last gig, we had a multi-hundred-thousand 
dollar implementation of commercial tools running on solaris that came 
with an acquisition. After looking at the situation carefully we still 
went with nagios for our systems and network monitoring (120k+ hosts 
and ~2k network devices). Nagios did need quite a bit of localized 
modifications to scale to the size required, but it was available for 
far less and with a much quicker turnaround than it would have taken 
with the available commercial tools.

Monitoring 100 systems should be a piece of cake for the stock nagios on 
even old hardware. Figuring out your monitoring requirements is going 
to be by-far the most time intensive part of any monitoring plan. 
Setting up and maintaining nagios is fairly straightforward once you 
know what you want to do with the tool.

-jba
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