[TriLUG] Remote server monitoring

[jonc]

Before I join the Holy war going on, I just want to say that I've been
using OpenNMS for many years now. It is by far the best monitoring tool
I have ever seen or used (and I've played with Nagios since the days it
was called Netsaint).

OpenNMS works best on a dedicated box... which is of course what you
really want if you are truly expecting server/service/network monitoring
to alert you when your main server goes South.

Nagios is cool, and lower power. You can easily add it to an existing
over-taxed server and get decent results for typical service monitoring.
Don't put too much faith in Nagios' network mapping.

If you want the best monitoring tool available (on a dedicated server)
then OpenNMS is what you are looking for.

If you're just hacking together a quick monitoring app to run on an
existing server, then Nagios will work great.

Jon Carnes
CTO FeatureTel 

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 10:56, Shane O'Donnell wrote:
> Or use OpenNMS, which already does all of this out of the box.
> 
> Oh yeah, almost forgot, it also scales better, has a better user
> interface (from a usability perspective), and can use all of the
> plugins built for Nagios.
> 
> Shane O.
> 
> On 9/1/05, Aaron Joyner <aaron at joyner.ws> wrote:
> > Owen Berry wrote:
> > 
> > >Nagios as well.
> > >
> > >On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 09:05:26AM -0400, Matt Pusateri wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>www.nagios.org
> > >>
> > >>
> > http://www.nagios.org/ - It be the best.  Tie in MRTG or better yet your
> > own RRDtool back end for historical monitoring, and layer on smokeping
> > for good latency measurements if you need them.
> > 
> > Aaron S. Joyner
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