hi,
I have a dedicated server with several services running: ssh, ftp, httpd (with several sites andactive domains), the mail server (dovecot, postfix), dns.
I'd like to monitor all of these services in a graphical, easy, setting of thresholds and alerts via email. I would also like that if a customer wanted to see the graphs I could create codes read-only.
there is one or more software that are right for me? what advice can you give me? thanks in advance
greetings
On 10/18/2013 02:49 PM, Paolo De Michele wrote:
hi,
I have a dedicated server with several services running: ssh, ftp, httpd (with several sites andactive domains), the mail server (dovecot, postfix), dns.
I'd like to monitor all of these services in a graphical, easy, setting of thresholds and alerts via email.
The epel repo has fairly recent zabbix20 RPMs. Zabbix' web GUI can produce nice graphs that can even be modified on the fly. I don't know though if Zabbix is overkill for monitoring a single host ...
-dirk
Hi
you can use the software NAGIOS or Monit.
Nagios is software that performs all your looking.
Create user with your privilegies (read-only, admin all etc)
Monitoring services (ssh,ftp,http, mysql, cpu, memory ....etc)
regards
2013/10/18 Dirk Olmes dirk.olmes@exentra.de
On 10/18/2013 02:49 PM, Paolo De Michele wrote:
hi,
I have a dedicated server with several services running: ssh, ftp, httpd (with several sites andactive domains), the mail server (dovecot, postfix), dns.
I'd like to monitor all of these services in a graphical, easy, setting of thresholds and alerts via email.
The epel repo has fairly recent zabbix20 RPMs. Zabbix' web GUI can produce nice graphs that can even be modified on the fly. I don't know though if Zabbix is overkill for monitoring a single host ...
-dirk _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 10/18/2013 7:04 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 10/18/2013 06:48 AM, Rodrigo Pichiñual Norin wrote:
Nagios is software that performs all your looking.
..except graphing. Graphing is done with external components, and is typically a *lot* of work. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
You can also consider Centreon, which is a frontend for Nagios. They also have a VM appliance which is prebuilt. Nice if you are starting from scratch. I won't say it makes things super easy, but does help if you want to use nagios and don't want to deal with manually editing conf files.
Free support is a bit lacking for Centreon. Sometimes you get help, sometimes you don't, but it's worth a look.
HTH
On 18 October 2013 13:54, Dirk Olmes dirk.olmes@exentra.de wrote:
On 10/18/2013 02:49 PM, Paolo De Michele wrote:
hi,
I have a dedicated server with several services running: ssh, ftp, httpd (with several sites andactive domains), the mail server (dovecot, postfix), dns.
I'd like to monitor all of these services in a graphical, easy, setting of thresholds and alerts via email.
The epel repo has fairly recent zabbix20 RPMs.
+1. You can just install zabbix and it works out of the box.
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Paolo De Michele paolo@paolodemichele.itwrote:
hi,
I have a dedicated server with several services running: ssh, ftp, httpd (with several sites andactive domains), the mail server (dovecot, postfix), dns.
I'd like to monitor all of these services in a graphical, easy, setting of thresholds and alerts via email. I would also like that if a customer wanted to see the graphs I could create codes read-only.
Cacti can do the graphs and individual (customer) logins. But not alerts, so you either need to find a solution that integrates both alerts and graphs in one or have two separate monitoring software running.
We've had a few mailing list threads on this topic in the past. http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2013-March/133383.html http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2013-October/137352.html
there is one or more software that are right for me?
Nagios for alerts/pages. Cacti for trend graphs. And there's PNP4Nagios which is an add-on for graphing.
what advice can you give me? thanks in advance
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Cacti HAVE alerts, but you must fight first
http://munin-monitoring.org/wiki/HowToContact
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 1:01 PM, SilverTip257 silvertip257@gmail.comwrote:
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Paolo De Michele paolo@paolodemichele.itwrote:
hi,
I have a dedicated server with several services running: ssh, ftp, httpd (with several sites andactive domains), the mail server (dovecot, postfix), dns.
I'd like to monitor all of these services in a graphical, easy, setting of thresholds and alerts via email. I would also like that if a customer wanted to see the graphs I could create codes read-only.
Cacti can do the graphs and individual (customer) logins. But not alerts, so you either need to find a solution that integrates both alerts and graphs in one or have two separate monitoring software running.
We've had a few mailing list threads on this topic in the past. http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2013-March/133383.html http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2013-October/137352.html
there is one or more software that are right for me?
Nagios for alerts/pages. Cacti for trend graphs. And there's PNP4Nagios which is an add-on for graphing.
what advice can you give me? thanks in advance
greetings _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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Observium - http://www.observium.org/
Alerting support in progress. Very nice interface and a very wide variety of stats and applications monitored.
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Diego Sanchez diegors@gmail.com wrote:
Cacti HAVE alerts, but you must fight first
http://munin-monitoring.org/wiki/HowToContact
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 1:01 PM, SilverTip257 <silvertip257@gmail.com
wrote:
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Paolo De Michele paolo@paolodemichele.itwrote:
hi,
I have a dedicated server with several services running: ssh, ftp,
httpd
(with several sites andactive domains), the mail server (dovecot, postfix), dns.
I'd like to monitor all of these services in a graphical, easy, setting of thresholds and alerts via email. I would also like that if a customer wanted to see the graphs I could create codes read-only.
Cacti can do the graphs and individual (customer) logins. But not
alerts,
so you either need to find a solution that integrates both alerts and graphs in one or have two separate monitoring software running.
We've had a few mailing list threads on this topic in the past. http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2013-March/133383.html http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2013-October/137352.html
there is one or more software that are right for me?
Nagios for alerts/pages. Cacti for trend graphs. And there's PNP4Nagios which is an add-on for graphing.
what advice can you give me? thanks in advance
greetings _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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-------------------------------------------- On Fri, 10/18/13, Paolo De Michele paolo@paolodemichele.it wrote:
Subject: [CentOS] - monitoring software To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Date: Friday, October 18, 2013, 5:49 AM
hi,
I have a dedicated server with several services running: ssh, ftp, httpd (with several sites andactive domains), the mail server (dovecot, postfix), dns.
You could grab this Icinga VM (nagios, basically):
https://www.icinga.org/about/virtual-appliance/
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On 10/18/2013 6:49 AM, Paolo De Michele wrote:
I have a dedicated server with several services running: ssh, ftp, httpd (with several sites andactive domains), the mail server (dovecot, postfix), dns.
I'd like to monitor all of these services in a graphical, easy, setting of thresholds and alerts via email. I would also like that if a customer wanted to see the graphs I could create codes read-only.
there is one or more software that are right for me? what advice can you give me? thanks in advance
Except for your caveat of easy I would highly recommend Nagios. It's easy to use once set up, but a bit of command line work is required to configure (which I consider easy but understand not everyone does). It will certainly do all the other things you want and then some. Just my opinion... -- Steve Lindemann, MSIS __ Network Administrator //\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Marmot Library Network \// against HTML/RTF email, +1.970.242.3331 x116 //\ vCards & M$ attachments http://www.marmot.org
On 10/18/2013 5:49 AM, Paolo De Michele wrote:
I have a dedicated server with several services running: ssh, ftp, httpd (with several sites andactive domains), the mail server (dovecot, postfix), dns.
I'd like to monitor all of these services in a graphical, easy, setting of thresholds and alerts via email. I would also like that if a customer wanted to see the graphs I could create codes read-only.
to echo whats already been said, and perhaps clarify...
Nagios is the classic alert package. while its usually run on a dedicated server and monitors a bunch of other servers, it certainly can be used on a single system. But, Graphing in Nagios is a bit of a pain.
Cacti is a excellent graphing package, same thing, its usually run on a central server that monitors lots of stuff on other servers, it can be run on the same machine. however, setting up alerts in Cacti is difficult. You may find older references to 'mrtg', well, mrtg was rewritten as rrdtool, and rrdtool is the basis of Cacti.
both of these systems have web based displays, and use 'agent' based data collection. Its not unusual to use both at once for their respective strong points.
with any of these systems, you typically have a line in the agent script for each thing you want to monitor on a given host. utility scripts such as check_postgresql.pl let you get extensive data out of postgres databases
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:34 PM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
On 10/18/2013 5:49 AM, Paolo De Michele wrote:
I have a dedicated server with several services running: ssh, ftp, httpd (with several sites andactive domains), the mail server (dovecot, postfix), dns.
I'd like to monitor all of these services in a graphical, easy, setting of thresholds and alerts via email. I would also like that if a customer wanted to see the graphs I could create codes read-only.
to echo whats already been said, and perhaps clarify...
Nagios is the classic alert package. while its usually run on a dedicated server and monitors a bunch of other servers, it certainly can be used on a single system. But, Graphing in Nagios is a bit of a pain.
Cacti is a excellent graphing package, same thing, its usually run on a central server that monitors lots of stuff on other servers, it can be run on the same machine. however, setting up alerts in Cacti is difficult. You may find older references to 'mrtg', well, mrtg was rewritten as rrdtool, and rrdtool is the basis of Cacti.
both of these systems have web based displays, and use 'agent' based data collection. Its not unusual to use both at once for their respective strong points.
with any of these systems, you typically have a line in the agent script for each thing you want to monitor on a given host. utility scripts such as check_postgresql.pl let you get extensive data out of postgres databases
There is also OpenNMS: http://www.opennms.org. Probably overkill for a single host, but good if you intend to scale up and since a yum repository is maintained, installing isn't bad. It normally uses snmp and remote probes of network protocols instead of a dedicated local agent, but does have the ability to use some NRPE stuff from nagios if you want. Don't think there is a usable 'read only' login for outsiders but it does have an embedded jasper reports server for publishing fancy reports that can be emailed as pdfs.
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 1:34 PM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
On 10/18/2013 5:49 AM, Paolo De Michele wrote:
I have a dedicated server with several services running: ssh, ftp, httpd (with several sites andactive domains), the mail server (dovecot, postfix), dns.
I'd like to monitor all of these services in a graphical, easy, setting of thresholds and alerts via email. I would also like that if a customer wanted to see the graphs I could create codes read-only.
to echo whats already been said, and perhaps clarify...
Nagios is the classic alert package. while its usually run on a dedicated server and monitors a bunch of other servers, it certainly can be used on a single system. But, Graphing in Nagios is a bit of a pain.
Cacti is a excellent graphing package, same thing, its usually run on a central server that monitors lots of stuff on other servers, it can be run on the same machine. however, setting up alerts in Cacti is difficult. You may find older references to 'mrtg', well, mrtg was
Are you referring to this Cacti plugin [0] or something else?
[0] http://docs.cacti.net/plugin:monitor
rewritten as rrdtool, and rrdtool is the basis of Cacti.
both of these systems have web based displays, and use 'agent' based data collection. Its not unusual to use both at once for their respective strong points.
My thought exactly. Use each one for the job it was designed for (and good at).
with any of these systems, you typically have a line in the agent script for each thing you want to monitor on a given host. utility scripts such as check_postgresql.pl let you get extensive data out of postgres databases
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On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 14:49 +0200, Paolo De Michele wrote:
hi,
I have a dedicated server with several services running: ssh, ftp, httpd (with several sites andactive domains), the mail server (dovecot, postfix), dns.
I'd like to monitor all of these services in a graphical, easy, setting of thresholds and alerts via email. I would also like that if a customer wanted to see the graphs I could create codes read-only.
Hello,
We use 'Xymon' (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/) http://www.xymon.com/ will show you what it looks like. It will monitor what you want, and produce graphs (see the 'trends' column). I gather it does alerts, but we do not use them ourselves. As you can see it has a graphical frontend. We use it to monitor our Centos and RHEL servers, and some Debian and Fedora devices.
John.
On Sat, 19 Oct 2013, John Horne wrote:
On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 14:49 +0200, Paolo De Michele wrote:
hi,
I have a dedicated server with several services running: ssh, ftp, httpd (with several sites andactive domains), the mail server (dovecot, postfix), dns.
I'd like to monitor all of these services in a graphical, easy, setting of thresholds and alerts via email. I would also like that if a customer wanted to see the graphs I could create codes read-only.
Hello,
We use 'Xymon' (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/) http://www.xymon.com/ will show you what it looks like. It will monitor what you want, and produce graphs (see the 'trends' column). I gather it does alerts, but we do not use them ourselves. As you can see it has a graphical frontend. We use it to monitor our Centos and RHEL servers, and some Debian and Fedora devices.
+1 for xymon. It is easy to setup and maintain and there are Centos rpms available at http://terabithia.org/rpms/xymon/.
Regards,
hi everybody,
many thanks for all your replies in the end, I chose observium
greetings
On 10/19/2013 11:33 PM, me@tdiehl.org wrote:
On Sat, 19 Oct 2013, John Horne wrote:
On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 14:49 +0200, Paolo De Michele wrote:
hi,
I have a dedicated server with several services running: ssh, ftp, httpd (with several sites andactive domains), the mail server (dovecot, postfix), dns.
I'd like to monitor all of these services in a graphical, easy, setting of thresholds and alerts via email. I would also like that if a customer wanted to see the graphs I could create codes read-only.
Hello,
We use 'Xymon' (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/) http://www.xymon.com/ will show you what it looks like. It will monitor what you want, and produce graphs (see the 'trends' column). I gather it does alerts, but we do not use them ourselves. As you can see it has a graphical frontend. We use it to monitor our Centos and RHEL servers, and some Debian and Fedora devices.
+1 for xymon. It is easy to setup and maintain and there are Centos rpms available at http://terabithia.org/rpms/xymon/.
Regards,
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