What network monitor system do you use?

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yatesco

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Which network monitoring solution do you use to monitor your hosts and virtual machines?

Nagios, Zenoss, Groundworks etc.?

I am looking for something really simple - I don't care about geographical maps, I just want something that will inform me if things like the CPU, proc count, memory, heat, IO etc. exceed a threshold. Also service availability (i.e. is service X available)

Performance/historical graphs would be nice as well.

I have used nagios before which did everything I want, but it was quite fiddly getting everything to work.

Also, I notice monitoring is on the 2.0 roadmap, are there any details on that yet? Any juicy carrots/screenshots/screen sketches you can share :)?

Thanks, as always
 
Hi,
i use nagios - since a while.
For a new installation i would take the fork icinga.
Perhaps not so easy for beginning, but very powerfull. And don't underrate graphs - some problems can be found with this (or to find out if it's usefull to switch to 10Gig etc.)

Udo
 
Just to reply to an old thread I started - I have actually gotten into zabbix. It is really very nice - it gives you *loads* of out of the box reporting without you having to do anything. It is very open and extensible, but comes pre-configured with lots of very nice templates.

Autodiscovery is also very nice - I just create a new Linux machine, install the zabbix agent and then within minutes I can view graphs of whatever I want - memory, disk space, swap, processes, apache, mysql, postgres, ethX performance etc.

For those that care, you can also configure it to monitor your JVM via JMX.

(Despite sounding like a fanboy - I AM!, I am not affiliated with them in anyway).

Another nice GUI on top of nagios is http://fannagioscd.sourceforge.net/ (FAN). Again, takes a while to set up but the ability to create graphs is very nice - just tick the metrics you want to see in your hierarchy of services.
 
Hi,
just to throw in my two cents: zabbix! Why? Zabbix rocks, it's open, stable and well supported by an growing community around the world, based on the work and experience of a company behind.

I would like to see deep integration with zabbix in the upcomming v2.0 of proxmox or at least a simple e.g. shared-memory interface for all vital data to be monitored.

BTW: sorry to be so late in replying to this thread ...
 
i use opsview , that is a frontend for nagios, but makes it so easy to work with.
 
I use Zabbix.
It enables me to write extensions on the clients using bash or perl.
Even my router is running zabbix (dd-wrt)
 
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