[CentOS] - monitoring software

Sat Oct 19 21:33:43 UTC 2013
me at tdiehl.org <me at tdiehl.org>

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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