On Apr 13, 2011, at 12:28 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:39:17AM -0700, aurfalien at 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. - aurf