[Cialug] Server Monitoring/Management

[Theron Conrey]

We're a redhat shop, we installed it on a new RH5 box. Never tried it on anything else.  If you're looking for free the obvious recommendation  would be centOS.

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris K. <lister at kulish.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 5:25 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Server Monitoring/Management

Well, Hyperic is one I missed.  Looks like I could get a good cross
section of capabilities to show the manglers with the OSS HQ version.

Think I may burn down the xen machine to a clean install again (thank
bender I made a copy of the pristine filesystem) and give Hyperic a shot.

If you dont mind me asking, what distro did you end up installing
Hyperic on?  If it was an rpm based, did you ever try non-rpm (ie.
debian, ubuntu, slack)?

Theron Conrey wrote:
> My company just went through this exercise.  We were a nagios only shop, and we were doing all of the requirements that you listed below, albeit with some heavy customization.  We just settled on hyperic for a number of reasons I'd be willing to discuss at the next meeting.  Proactivenet was one of the contenders as well as a few other monitoring companies.
>
> In short, Hyperic won out because of their integration with Nagios, and also their tiered alerting and baseline trending.
> Zenoss was looked at, however the alerting in hyperic is fantastic.
>
> I know they have a zero cost package, as well as a VMware image that you can just download, turn on to try.  I'll be at the next meeting if you're interested I can go into greater detail.
>
> -theron
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Matt Patterson
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 7:40 AM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Server Monitoring/Management
>
> Sounds like a lot of people are heading down this path.  At the office, we have a simliar project.  We're currently evaluating zenoss, zabbix and opsview as the lead horses in our monitoring race.
>
> We may go with a combination of several of the product.  Zabbix seems to be a great snmp poller.  Opsview handles traps well. And zenoss seems to do several things well, we're just wondering how many devices we can truly throw at it.
>
> -Matt
>
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Chris K. wrote:
>
>
>> Hopefully someone on the list can help with some legwork here.  I am
>> currently looking for a Low or No cost monitoring solution meeting the
>> following criteria:
>>
>> Centralized, Web based reporting
>> Alerting via Email
>> Centralized Logging
>> Service Monitoring
>> Server Monitoring (ping etc)
>> MySQL (or other RDB backend)
>> Linux or Solaris Based
>> Bonus Item: Tripwire like checksumming
>>
>> I am not picky on agent vs. agentless at this point.
>>
>> I have tried Zabbix (notifier broke), Zenoss (close, but real heavy on
>> resources), OSSIM (the install, ouch).
>>
>>
>> Anyone have any other ideas?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Chris K.
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