[PLUG] Real-time monitoring of *nix hosts?

[Eli Stair]

I set that up at one point, it did seem promising, had all the
visualization I wanted that Nagios was missing... Unfortunately at the
time (and now that I tried it again recently..) it was very buggy,
though I can say the same for Nagios :)  The 1.0 and 1.1betas worked
well enough most of the time.

Best things:
per-user configurability is great
integrated trending/graphing of info is priceless

Bad:
entirely SQL-based config.

The SQL thing is relative... I personally prefer to have everything
built as text configs, it's easier to track down whats' going on and
make changes.  I find it easy to build generation scripts for
thousands of hosts, and re-create config changes from templates.  I
don't have the ability to do that with configs stored in a database.

IMO

/eli


On 1/23/06, Kevin Karwaski <kkarwaski at gmail.com> wrote:
> Have any of you tried zabbix?
>
> It implements real-time polling, triggered alerts, and stores
> historical data in a mysql db. It also supports data visualisation and
> mapping to acheive the "click on host for vital stats" functionality.
> It's based on a standard LAMP configuration and is extremely
> flexible... just thought I'd throw it out there...
>
> http://www.zabbix.com
>
> -Kevin
>
> On 1/21/06, Eli Stair <eli.stair at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ganglia?
> >
> > I use this <gasp> integrated with the dreaded Cacti, Nagios, and the like :)
> >
> > Perhaps not exactly what you're looking for.  It sounds like you want
> > a combination of polling (trending long-term data) which is what all
> > the above tools does, with the addition of when you "click" on the
> > host, you get the current point in time results in addition?
> >
> > You could do this with the above tools, using whatever resolution of
> > polling interval you want.  For instance in Nagios, you could add a
> > script to force a HOST_SVC_CHECK (will update all configured values
> > "immediately*"), and add a hostextinfo tag on the host, which can pop
> > up your prettified GUI (Cacti, Ganglia...) which will display all your
> > long-term trending with the last (just submitted) results as the last
> > data sample.
> >
> > /eli
> >
> > On 1/21/06, Charlie Schluting <charlie at schluting.com> wrote:
> > > Jason R. Martin wrote:
> > > >
> > > > While the interface is different that what you describe, it sounds
> > > > like at least some of the functionality would be covered by GKrellM.
> > > >
> > >
> > > It sort of does, actually. Almost everything but the interface part :)
> > > Might be a good starting point.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > -Charlie
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