Compuware Client Vantage Agentless and Active - its simply superb for this.
Which monitoring solution do you use?
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Compuware Client Vantage Agentless and Active - its simply superb for this.
Zabbix is a bit of a pain to setup as well
it's extremely powerful for reporting data and graphs and statistics and all sorts. Some well nifty interactive reporting tools, at times doens't feel like a web app. But some problems getting the client software installed on some machines, but we have it monitoring some linux servers and some win2k3 and win2k machines. We are still setting up all the reports and alerts and everything, it's very comprehensive.
running it in a vm and it's constantly hitting our mysql server, but nothing that anything can't handle.
To be fair though, I haven't used it as much as my colleague who is mainly dealing with it..
if you just google for nagios zabbix there's tons of discussion on the one versus the other. Here's a wiki article for starters for anyones information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_network_monitoring_systems
I deployed Zabbix a couple of years ago, current stats are:
513 hosts
25715 items
14017 triggers
Its pretty much the best of the open source world for server hardware and application monitoring when presented in a graphical form. I decided on it after testing many other solutions such as Ops View, Zenoss, Groundwork (epic fail system of huge proportions).
If you are looking for a excellent alerter, emails, problem acknowledgements and escalations and the like I suggest checking out Hyperic HQ. Word of warning tho, Hyperic in a massive fit of fail wrote their server agent in Java and so you'll probably need to upgrade your ram
If anyone needs any help with Zabbix gimme a bell.
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Currently, Whatsup... Which I hate. I've managed to get SCOM07 in, waiting til R2 to go fully live with it.
Another one here for Nagios. 450 devices in over 30 countries, approx 5000 services.... all monitored.
As people stated in the thread already, it is incredibly powerful and flexible but you will need to be prepared to put a little time and effort into it to get the best out of it.
We also use some Solarwinds and Cacti, but for pure monitoring, Nagios is our main platform. It replaced the HP Openview that was in place a couple of years back.
As people stated in the thread already, it is incredibly powerful and flexible but you will need to be prepared to put a little time and effort into it to get the best out of it.
We also use some Solarwinds and Cacti, but for pure monitoring, Nagios is our main platform. It replaced the HP Openview that was in place a couple of years back.
Has anyone got any experience in tying Nagios into Splunk? I tried using the Nagios2Splunk plugin for Splunk but it keeps throwing up errors and it never seems to be installed properly.
I want a more.. pretty interface for Nagios, for managers and the like.
I want a more.. pretty interface for Nagios, for managers and the like.
Also have a look at Uptime (www.uptimesoftware.com) We use it on about 24 servers and it is pretty good plus very flexible as you can script anything you want to run client side.