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11-03-2006, 12:48 PM #1Junior Guru Wannabe
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servers monitoring tool
hi guys, I am trying to find out about the best server monitoring tool.
my racks hold up to 40 servers each, I have several racks and using a few monitoring tools to get status reporting and alerts of services, cpu, disk space, etc....
I am looking for ONE tool to bundle eveyrthing, what is everybody using out there ?
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11-03-2006, 02:30 PM #2Aspiring Evangelist
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Are these windows or linux servers? Or a combination of both?
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11-03-2006, 02:45 PM #3Junior Guru Wannabe
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windows 2003
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11-03-2006, 02:49 PM #4Aspiring Evangelist
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Ok, easy enough. Use the perfomance Monitor in windows, you can do alot of custom stuff there, and set filters for base and max settings, and have it e-mail you when one of your filters are reached.
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11-03-2006, 02:50 PM #5Web Hosting Master
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I am also having the same problem
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11-03-2006, 03:01 PM #6WHT Addict
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Take a look at nagios, VERY flexible and VERY powerful....we use it, we like it
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11-03-2006, 03:50 PM #7Junior Guru Wannabe
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nagios is for linux platform isn't it ? I am running widows
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11-03-2006, 05:17 PM #8Junior Guru
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crshman is right. Take a very hard look at Nagios.
Nagios can be used to monitor Windows boxen as well. If you have a small Linux machine somewhere (it wouldn't take much). You'd need Apache, gdlib and gdlib-devel. Easy peasy.
You can track everything from pings to mail queues to service status to spamcop blocks.
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11-03-2006, 06:02 PM #9WHT Addict
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PortSensor is very good for local monitoring from your own PC. We use this in combination in Zabbix for monitoring our servers. Zabbix has a Windows client that be installed to report to the monitoring server.
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11-03-2006, 06:11 PM #10WHT Addict
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Hi
use zabbix (windows and linux too) and it's opensource
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11-03-2006, 09:15 PM #11WHT Addict
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yes, billbrown hit it right on the money...a small linux box.....nagios can monitor just about ANYTHING......even your printer with either a ping or a snmp call
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11-04-2006, 06:02 AM #12Formerly orange-y
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But Naigos can be a bitch to configure. We're using Zabbix. It's much more friendly. Maybe not the most friendly, but a heck of a lot better than Naigos.
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11-04-2006, 11:59 AM #13Web Hosting Master
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11-04-2006, 12:39 PM #14Web Hosting Master
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I just found this too: http://www.zenoss.com/product/ Never heard of it or used it.
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11-04-2006, 12:45 PM #15WHT Addict
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I agree with PSFServers, Naigos is well worth the time and afford learning.
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11-04-2006, 10:08 PM #16Newbie
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Hiyas,
I have used status2k which has been a fantastic program and only about $20 to get a license for it.
Provides usefull info and a live process/disk watching queue
Hope that helps
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11-05-2006, 12:15 AM #17WHT Addict
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Ya, the functionality you can get out of nagios is, dare i say, unparalleled? it was a HUGE learning curve, but now i'm happy i invested the time into it!
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11-05-2006, 01:39 AM #18Web Hosting Master
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- ipmonitor is very easy to manage and has many powered feature. Performance monitor utility can be used to monitor the performance of your network.
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11-06-2006, 12:31 AM #19WHT Addict
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I hear that zabbix has some problems with false positives....
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11-06-2006, 01:02 AM #20Hey, whats your uptime ?
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Nagios is meanwhile already backed up by some books. If you are serious about monitoring, then that should basically be the way to go. Especially if you later want to extend it with your own plugins.
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11-06-2006, 01:05 AM #21Newbie
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I have a problem with nagios, it is a fantastic product but it does not have the option to export the views to a html page or a php page that can be slipstreamed into a website. I think it lacks like that.
I know i can call up the cgi but it has all the extra stuff around it. It would be nice if i could use variables to pull the info from nagios to place on my website and use that to monitor servers.
Anyone have any ideas on nagios doing this in the future?
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11-06-2006, 01:06 AM #22WHT Addict
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May this help?
http://oreon-project.org/
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11-06-2006, 01:35 AM #23Hey, whats your uptime ?
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"MailShield" even if what you say is true, than Nagios is your best chance that it does get implemented in a future version which such a wide audience.
But to be honest Exporting data is nothing new, so I guess they either are already working on it or you probably just need to mention it once more for the developers to pick it up again.
Did you contact the nagios developers f.e. by mailing list to make sure the feature is not implemented or being worked on ?
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11-06-2006, 02:36 AM #24Newbie
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Hey Guys,
Yes i have emailed there support and i get more along the lines of we do not offer that functionality at this time.
I have not taken further than that but that was a few months back
crshman : i am checking it out now looks promising. Someone may have already done the work for them.
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Shaun