[CentOS] SNMP monitoring options

Wed Apr 13 20:01:25 UTC 2011
Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at msu.edu>

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:37:28PM -0700, aurfalien at gmail.com wrote:

> On Apr 13, 2011, at 12:28 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> 
> >>>
> >>> 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.
> 

Oh.  OK.   As I indicated, I haven't been following, just dived in
the middle.    I have not used Cacti or Opsview, but am just starting 
to learn rrdtool by itself.

////jerry   

> 
> 
> - aurf
> 
> 
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