[CentOS] Enterprise-class monitoring system for CentOS and Win2k3 server
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Feb 5 18:06:56 UTC 2008
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
>
> And none of them have met all my requirements. Any suggestions?
http://www.opennms.org - and they have a yum repo for easy installation
on Centos. Expect to do some work setting up relationships, but the
framework is all there.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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