2008/5/13 <jleaver+centos at reachone.com>: > Sergio Belkin wrote: >> >> Even so, thanks for your comments, I'd like more experiences about >> monitoring systems. Again of topic, I want to avoid Nagios because it >> looks like over complex but if someone has an actual experience >> demostrating the opposite, I'd be glad to hear. >> >> Thanks in advance >> > > We've used Nagios very successfully. We have hundreds of hosts and well > over a thousand checks, so I'm guessing that we're probably a medium-ish > installation. The use of templating makes adding hosts and services quick > and painless. We've evaluated some of the other options already mentioned > here: zabbix, opennms, zenoss, even mon, and big-brother and friends, and > have always decided that nagios is the best product for our needs, as far as > system monitoring goes. The initial learning curve is about medium compared > to some, and once you've gotten over that hump, there just don't seem to be > others. I've recommended Nagios to a few less-than-seasoned sysadmins who > were able to take the templating concept and run with it. We have also > setup cacti for the snmp statistics keeping. Nagios does have performance > data capabilities now, they feel sort of tacked on to me. The folks over at > http://www.centreon.com/ are working on an integrated user interface that > includes statistics keeping using Nagios as the monitoring engine which > looks as though there may be some promise, if I was starting over I'd > definitely evaluate that. > > I hope this is of some help in your review process. > > Sincerely, > > Jacob Leaver > Sr. Systems Administrator > ReachONE Internet > _______________________________________________ OK, you won :) I'm going to test nagios. I am using centos 5.1 x86_64. Do I lose much if I use rpm from rpmforge (version 2.9)? -- -- Open Kairos http://www.openkairos.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com Sergio Belkin -