----- Original Message ----- > 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. > Have a look at Zabbix [1]. It's fantastic with both alerting *AND* trending. Plus, the data is malleable into other forms for custom reporting, etc. The only issue I've found thus far is *current* documentation is quite lacking. The best reference I've found is a third party book available from Packt. [2] --Tim [1] http://www.zabbix.com [2] http://www.packtpub.com/zabbix-1-8-network-monitoring/book