Monitoring Software - What do you use?

I am looking for a monitoring software that will allow me to monitor my 5
servers (all from 1 location/pc if possible) and that can also notify me
either by email, sms or a phone call incase of a problem.

What does everyone else use?

Thanks,
Jim

"Jim G." <jgrago@REMOVE-NOSPAM.twcny.rr.com> wrote:

> I am looking for a monitoring software that will allow me to monitor

Try 'n-view'

http://www.n-view.de/

I'm using this for months now w/o any problems

"Jim G." <jgrago@REMOVE-NOSPAM.twcny.rr.com> writes:

> I am looking for a monitoring software that will allow me to monitor my 5
> servers (all from 1 location/pc if possible) and that can also notify me
> either by email, sms or a phone call incase of a problem.
>
> What does everyone else use?

_mon_. Used it for years, with mucho happiness.

~Tim
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Jim G. wrote:

> I am looking for a monitoring software that will allow me to monitor
> my 5 servers (all from 1 location/pc if possible) and that can also
> notify me either by email, sms or a phone call incase of a problem.
>
> What does everyone else use?

Nagios.

EJ
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Jim G. spilled the following:

> I am looking for a monitoring software that will allow me to monitor my 5
> servers (all from 1 location/pc if possible) and that can also notify me
> either by email, sms or a phone call incase of a problem.
>
> What does everyone else use?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim

I've used portmon before (very simple - just sees if a port on host is
available). I've heard good things about Big Brother too (bb4.com).

More recently I've been developing my own applications - cos the off the
shelf stuff is just too generic too account for certain fault situations
many of which are only visible at the application level (e.g. no money in
account). I'm planning on tying this in to a commercial monitoring service
for regular polling (sorry, details on my work PC), connectivity testing
and SMS updates.

HTH

C.

Jim G. wrote:
> I am looking for a monitoring software that will allow me to monitor my 5
> servers (all from 1 location/pc if possible) and that can also notify me
> either by email, sms or a phone call incase of a problem.
>
> What does everyone else use?

For simple monitoring have a look at http://www.altara.org/mars.html
and use http://www.nagios.org/ if you need more feature-full monitoring
software. Nagios has it all.

--
Frederik Dannemare

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On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 18:18:16 GMT,
Jim G. <jgrago@REMOVE-NOSPAM.twcny.rr.com> wrote:
> I am looking for a monitoring software that will allow me to monitor my 5
> servers (all from 1 location/pc if possible) and that can also notify me
> either by email, sms or a phone call incase of a problem.
>
> What does everyone else use?

I've been happy with Nagios <http://www.nagios.org>,. open source,
stable, well supported. Takes some configuring to get it started, which
is about the worst thing I can think of about it.


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Jim Richardson <warlock@eskimo.com> said:
>["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.security.]
>On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 18:18:16 GMT,
> Jim G. <jgrago@REMOVE-NOSPAM.twcny.rr.com> wrote:
>> I am looking for a monitoring software that will allow me to monitor my 5
>> servers (all from 1 location/pc if possible) and that can also notify me
>> either by email, sms or a phone call incase of a problem.
>>
>> What does everyone else use?
>
>I've been happy with Nagios <http://www.nagios.org>,. open source,
>stable, well supported. Takes some configuring to get it started, which
>is about the worst thing I can think of about it.

Having set up HP OpenView (NNM & ITO; whatever the current component
names are) for one site, the configuring does take for that as well -
because anyway the monitoring needs do vary across sites. Of course
with the commercial things like OV you might get some things more-or-
less out-of-the-box, but even then some of the pre-made monitors (like
disk space monitor) wasn't up to our requirements (distinct limits for
distinct hosts and filesystems; ability to specify limits as either
percentage or MB; ability to specify separate warning and critical
limits), so I had to write my own monitor for that.

I've recently started to look at Nagios, but haven't been able to devote
enough time to learn it properly - but I don't expect it to be much more
difficult than HPOV was.
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On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 09:37:00 GMT,
Juha Laiho <Juha.Laiho@iki.fi> wrote:
> Jim Richardson <warlock@eskimo.com> said:
>>["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.security.]
>>On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 18:18:16 GMT,
>> Jim G. <jgrago@REMOVE-NOSPAM.twcny.rr.com> wrote:
>>> I am looking for a monitoring software that will allow me to monitor my 5
>>> servers (all from 1 location/pc if possible) and that can also notify me
>>> either by email, sms or a phone call incase of a problem.
>>>
>>> What does everyone else use?
>>
>>I've been happy with Nagios <http://www.nagios.org>,. open source,
>>stable, well supported. Takes some configuring to get it started, which
>>is about the worst thing I can think of about it.
>
> Having set up HP OpenView (NNM & ITO; whatever the current component
> names are) for one site, the configuring does take for that as well -
> because anyway the monitoring needs do vary across sites. Of course
> with the commercial things like OV you might get some things more-or-
> less out-of-the-box, but even then some of the pre-made monitors (like
> disk space monitor) wasn't up to our requirements (distinct limits for
> distinct hosts and filesystems; ability to specify limits as either
> percentage or MB; ability to specify separate warning and critical
> limits), so I had to write my own monitor for that.
>
> I've recently started to look at Nagios, but haven't been able to devote
> enough time to learn it properly - but I don't expect it to be much more
> difficult than HPOV was.

I've never used HPOV, so I can't compare the two. Nagios is straight
forward, but it's not ready to go "out of the box" as it were. Not that
I would expect it to be, as you say, every config is going to have
different needs in this sort of thing. Nagios has worked well for me,
and I'd recommend it to anyone who's gone beyond the ping a server
script level.

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Uli Wachowitz <uli@wach-o-witz.de> wrote in
news:pan.2004.02.14.20.34.01.2652@wach-o-witz.de:

> "Jim G." <jgrago@REMOVE-NOSPAM.twcny.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> I am looking for a monitoring software that will allow me to monitor
>
> Try 'n-view'
>
> http://www.n-view.de/
>
> I'm using this for months now w/o any problems
>
>