[181033] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hardware monitoring
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Satchell)
Sun Jun 14 14:01:50 2015
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Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 11:01:47 -0700
From: Stephen Satchell <list@satchell.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Appreciate the amplification.
Cunningham's Law: "The best way to get the right answer on the Internet
is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer."
On 06/14/2015 10:46 AM, Jürgen Jaritsch wrote:
>> This is a product designed for use on Windows only,
>
> No. The monitoring itself requires windows as OS but only for the Mgmt service, DB service, etc. You do not need a client (like for Nagios/etc) to monitor other systems. You simply monitor devices via http (e.g. APIs, etc) or SNMP, etc. You can also integrate other coding languages (Perl, PHP, C++, etc) if you need something unsupported.
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Satchell [list@satchell.net]
> Received: Sonntag, 14 Juni 2015, 19:37
> To: nanog@nanog.org [nanog@nanog.org]
> Subject: Re: Hardware monitoring
>
> On 06/14/2015 10:23 AM, Jürgen Jaritsch wrote:
>> We're using PRTG from Paessler (http://www.paessler.com).
>
> This is a product designed for use on Windows only, no mention of ports
> to other operating systems. For some people, this is fine. For others,
> who don't want to mess with Windows at all, it's a concern.
>
> Looking at some of the product sheets, it looks boss at what it does.
> In particular, the "David Letterman" view is an interesting quick
> snapshot look at what is going on.
>
