Robert Spangler wrote:

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Hello everyone,

While I know this isn't Centos related, you guys seems to be on top of your game around here. Sorry for the off-topic.

I'm looking for a tool to monitor my servers and send either an email or page or both when something breaks. I would like it to monitor all sorts of services on the servers with one small detail, I'd like it to be able to confiugre so if the DBA need something monitor that is hosted on a shared system that they can only change what they are responsible for and not something else that is being monitored on that system.

Is there such a program out there?

Hi

I have been using Nagios for monitoring the network and a few servers. It works fine. It's not the easiest thing to get it working properly.

Regards

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Hi,

+1 for Nagios. I am using it in a enviroment of 500+ servers without a hitch.

Bgrds, Finnur

Jim Wildman wrote:

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Marcelo M. Garcia wrote:

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I have been using Nagios for monitoring the network and a few servers. It works fine. It's not the easiest thing to get it working properly.

Regards

M.

Have not tried it, but I snipped this for future use.

FAN Fully Automated Nagios (based on CentOS)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/fannagioscd

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Hi

Very interesting.

thanks for that.

Marcelo

Robert Spangler wrote:

This looks interesting. Will have to read up on it some. Just wondering if I can configure it to allow many people to setup monitoring different way on the same device?

nagios monitors are configured by a script file on each monitored target system.... that script file could (in theory at least) include a bunch of other script files, each owned by a different user such that only that user could edit it.... would not this satisfy your management requirements?

Robert Spangler wrote:

On Tuesday 30 September 2008 16:25, John R Pierce wrote:

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Robert Spangler wrote:

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This looks interesting. Will have to read up on it some. Just wondering if I can configure it to allow many people to setup monitoring different way on the same device?

nagios monitors are configured by a script file on each monitored target system.... that script file could (in theory at least) include a bunch of other script files, each owned by a different user such that only that user could edit it.... would not this satisfy your management requirements?

This might. Thnx.

There's also opennms - http://www.opennms.org. It lets you set up dashboard views that only display a subset of the nodes for a certain login but I don't think you can limit what someone with write access can configure. It has a nice feature of being able to send notifications to an xmpp (jabber) group conference as well as the usual mechanisms.