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On Apr 13, 2011, at 12:28 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:39:17AM -0700, aurfalien@gmail.com wrote:
On Apr 12, 2011, at 7:33 PM, Keith Keller wrote:
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:23:19AM +1000, Bob Hepple wrote:
We looked at a number of monitoring systems before closing on (community version) Opsview. The main other contender we looked at was zenoss - I have to admit I was biased due to previous use of and liking of nagios.
So, if I already have a working nagios that I like, are there any advantages to Opsview community? I only have about 100 services I monitor, and I doubt it'd grow a huge amount in the near future.
Well, Nagios is more for outage/alerts were I was looking more for trending.
Thats why I was originally using Cacti w/Nagios plugin.
I haven't been following this thread, so I may be on the wrong track, but have you checked out something called 'rrdtool' and its pal 'mrtg'?
See: http://www.mrtg.org/rrdtool/
At least their intention is to help you reveal trends in various lengths of time and almost any metric you come up with. I believe some people have already worked out using it with snmp, at least for some things.
////jerry
Hi Jerry,
So nice of you to chime in.
Ummm, Cacti and I'm sure Opsview use rrdtool to generate there graphs.
In fact, my post was to ask for a more friendly tool as Cacti graphs get un ruley.
Have a look at Zabbix [1]. It's fantastic with both alerting *AND* trending. Plus, the data is malleable into other forms for custom reporting, etc.
The only issue I've found thus far is *current* documentation is quite lacking. The best reference I've found is a third party book available from Packt. [2]
--Tim
[1] http://www.zabbix.com [2] http://www.packtpub.com/zabbix-1-8-network-monitoring/book