[TriLUG] Open source software to monitor hundreds of VMs

[Jeremy Davis via TriLUG]

As I frequently mention, whenever possible be sure to consider
TriLUG sponsors/supporters before TriLUG non-sponsors :-)

Tarus of OpenNMS has done some really cool things for TriLUG, All Things
Open and other OSS events and communities. He recently offered to let us
use the OpenNMS location for hack nights and gave TriLUG a nice donation a
few years back. He is known to provide the live music bands at OSS events,
which just make them more fun.

By the way we are looking for pizza sponsors. lf anyone knows of potential
candidates refer them to contact us at steering at trilug.org

Jeremy Davis
TriLUG PR



On Monday, September 12, 2016, Roy Vestal via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> On the upside, Zenoss Core uses Nagios plugins as well. We use it here to
> monitor Cisco, VMware, EMC, and NetApp. When we didn't have what we needed,
> we added Nagios plugins to Zenoss.
>
> It's UI is more user friendly than the default Nagios.
>
> It would also be remiss if we did not mention one of our own, Tarus, and
> OpenNMS. http://www.opennms.org
>
> I've used all 3 as well as some of the payfor ones (Tivoli, OpenView,
> etc). I like Nagios, Zenoss, and OpenNMS. They just work. :)
>
> -Roy
>
>
> On 9/10/16 11:38 PM, Matt Pusateri via TriLUG wrote:
>
>> The one think I didn’t like about Zenoss, was that it stores data in an
>> embedded database that’s hard to backup and deal with.  Upgrades were a
>> pain.  Simple UI, but a pain to manage long term.
>>
>> Also I’d be remiss if I didn’t give you the Monitoring Sucks github page
>> would tracks a bunch of monitoring software.
>> https://github.com/monitoringsucks/
>>
>>
>> One thing you probably do want is a script that monitors your vm’s and
>> fixes the parent links. This way when vm’s migrate hosts, your network map
>> stays accurate.
>>
>>
>> Matt P.
>>
>> On Sep 10, 2016, at 9:43 PM, David Brain via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Just throwing in another option - Zenoss https://www.zenoss.org/ -
>>> have used it in the past pretty simple to get up and running.
>>>
>>> David.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 9:10 PM, Craig Cook via TriLUG
>>> <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Looking for some suggestions on Open Source software to monitor
>>>>> hundreds of VMs and/or containers (99% Linux [Ubuntu/CentOS]).  Currently
>>>>> using Cacti, but it is very tedious to setup a new VM.  Would like to get
>>>>> the “typical” stats (CPU, RAM, HDD, Network, SWAP, etc).  GUI would be nice
>>>>> as well as an API to add new VMs and extract data.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> For VM monitoring I recommend Check_mk RAW.  Configuring Nagios is
>>>> *painful*.  Check_mk uses nagios as a backend and makes configuring it
>>>> easy.  Includes integrated RRD graphs and other features.  Also has an API.
>>>> There are plugins available to send metrics to other engines, e.g.
>>>> graphite and friends.
>>>> Craig
>>>>
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