Out of interest, what monitoring software do you use and or your company use? Nagios/netsaint, HP Openview, Big Brother, Big Sister, BMC Patrol, Nocol, What's Up Gold, in-house custom or other?

'ping' monitoring at data center +
HostMonitor +
Custom solution with email-SMS alerts.

Greetings:

We use a system we developed in-house, and is currently being used by NTT/Verio for every last one of their enterprise customers, General Motor's product training division, and others.

We've found a lot of the current systems at there do not provide service level agreement reporting along with their systems, or are otherwise not accurate enough for dealing with the needs of business customers.

Thank you.

Nagios/Netsaint.

They are great :) You can set up redundant monitoring, and you can map networks so if a routers goes out, you don't get notices fo all hosts beneath etc.

It seems like a custom solution or nagios is the most popular.

dynamicnet, I thought openview did some fairly detailed reporting, but I guess in-house makes things alot more flexible. Is your product/solution available to the public?

denisdekat, do you test many hosts/services with it? 100? 300? More? Have you noticed a point where it becomes too much for it or has it been fine?

Thanks

Greetings:

"dynamicnet, I thought openview did some fairly detailed reporting, but I guess in-house makes things alot more flexible. Is your product/solution available to the public?"

Yes, it is available.

HP Openview is very high ended, and often provides more detail than what is required.

Thank you.

we use netsaint as well, works great too

We use an in-house developed monitoring system that reports to our Zaurus' when using the wireless card, and of course, standard e-mails are sent out. The next feature is implementing cell phone calls dialed by computer, and using festival for speech synthesis.

Festival -> cell phone sounds good.. How will that be implemented? Is SMS not enough, or just doing the Festival -> cell for the novelty value?

What's Up Gold rules. I've also heard Big Brother and Netsaint are very nice.

Customized version of BB that alerts via email, pager, SMS if problem occurs on any server (Also graphs and logs all trends for trend analysis - very handy for detecting an impending problem). Combined with alertra monitoring for external monitoring.

- John C.

Originally posted by imo
Festival -> cell phone sounds good.. How will that be implemented? Is SMS not enough, or just doing the Festival -> cell for the novelty value?

Not sure what you mean by "how will that be implemented?". Maybe you can clarify your question for me.

SMS is fine for short messages, as all of our cell phones have text limits for displaying text. When you need to read out uptimes or load levels for 10 servers, you can't limit that to 150 characters.

No novelty value ... it's a good solution for us.

What I mean was, what packages will you using or do you use for festival to 'talk' to the person on the cell phone? (ie. modem software etc)

No novelty value ... it's a good solution for us.

Sorry, didn't word that very well. The NOC in my old company use to change the synthesised voice to a french lady and she sounded pretty funny. It does sound like a good solution.

Thanks :-)