[PLUG] System monitoring

[Matt Alexander]

Eli Stair wrote:

>Nagios rox!
>
>As a long-term user, I'm happy.  Upgrading to 2b drastically reduced
>monitoring system load.  After getting nrpe compiled and configured
>(non-standard installations), I've got a setup monitoring 500+ HPC
>nodes, and dozens of separate fileservers/enterprise service systems,
>etc with no headaches.
>
>Just take your time with layout in the beginning, and you'll save
>yourself serious time and money in the long-haul.  FYI, anything that
>can be somehow checked on the command line can be scripted with
>Bash/Perl as a plugin.
>
>/eli
>
>On 5/13/05, Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>On 5/13/05 1:48 PM, Matt Alexander wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>I'm looking for a replacement for Big Brother and I'd like some
>>>feedback about what tools others are using to monitor servers and
>>>alert admins of problems. I've also heard of Nagios and Zabbix and I'm
>>>beginning to play around with them.
>>>Any info you have on products that work good for you and your
>>>experiences would be greatly appreciated.
>>>      
>>>
>>I use nagios 2.0b2 to monitor 38 services on 23 hosts/devices. The
>>initial setup was a bit hairy, but it's worked well since then. My local
>>setup has two limitations; they aren't limitations in nagios, only in
>>the amount of time I've put into the project:
>>
>>1. I've currently only got it doing e-mail notifications since I don't
>>    yet have a modem attached to the monitoring server.
>>
>>2. I haven't set up user accounts so that admins responsible for certain
>>    hosts can login and setup downtimes, mark problems as known, etc.
>>
>>--
>>    
>>

Has anyone had any experience with Zabbix?  It was very easy to setup 
and seems to have a lot of features.  I'm just wondering if Nagios is 
worth the trouble to setup if it doesn't provide anything more than Zabbix.
Thanks,
~M

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