[100646] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: monitoring tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Regnauld)
Tue Oct 30 17:14:05 2007
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:11:25 +0100
From: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@catpipe.net>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D25F22093241741BC1D0EEBC2DBB1DA3D3D74C7@EX-SEA5-D.ant.amazon.com>
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Nesser, Phil (nesser) writes:
>
> It has been a while since I have had to seriously think about network/system/application monitoring and now I have got to look at it. Can anyone point me towards:
>
> 1. Serious documents on monitoring (i.e. not vendor whitepapers)
Hi Phil,
There's lots of different papers out there -- define serious.
Is an online column comparing monitoring systems serious enough ?
What focus ? Best practices ? Agent vs SNMP based, etc... Topics
are varied.
> 2. Open Source Tools that you use or would recommend (I know the obvious smokeping, mrtg, nagios).
That can be a long thread as well...
Nagios, OpenNMS, Zabbix, Hyperic, ZenOSS - for the application/
service/server/network monitoring, and Cacti, Smokeping, NFsen
for capacity/availability monitoring.
We used Nagios and co. until a few years ago, when we figured it
wouldn't scale for large networks. Then we wrote our own :)
Cheers,
Phil
