[CentOS] Enterprise-class monitoring system for CentOS and Win2k3 server

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 11:49:54AM -0600, Sean Carolan wrote:
> Can anyone recommend an enterprise-class monitoring system for both
> Linux and Windows servers?  Here are my requirements:
> 
> SNMP trap collection, ability to import custom MIBs
> isup/isdown monitoring of ports and daemons
> Server health monitors (CPU, Disk, Memory, etc)
> SLA reporting with nice graphs
> Pager/Email/SMS alerts with groups, filters and escalations
> Built-in MTBF and MTTR reporting
> Robust parent-child relationships between monitors or probes.  For
> example, the system must be smart enough to know that if 25 URLs have
> gone down all at once, that they belong to an apache process that has
> died.  I don't want 25 alerts, I want *one* alert telling me that the
> parent apache daemon is down.
> Ability to easily create dashboards from various monitors.  We want
> this so we can see all components of a website in one place, eg,
> apache URL, database server, disk storage, etc.
> Attractive, easy to use GUI.  We don't want a homebrew project with
> ugly graphs and a web 1.0 GUI.
> 
> So far the products I have looked at are:
> NimBUS
> SolarWinds IP Monitor
> WhatsUPGold
> GroundWork Open Source
> Nagios

You might take a look at OpenNMS and ZenOSS.  I'm not sure if either
could do everything you're asking for out of the box however.

Ray