On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Brad Knowles <b...@shub-internet.org> wrote: > on 3/8/09 4:00 PM, Brent Chapman said: > >> Anybody here have any experience with Munin? >> http://munin.projects.linpro.no/ >> Sample of a live installation: http://munin.ping.uio.no/ > > We use it on the NTP Public Services Project at www.ntp.org, and I think we > also use it on the machines for Python.org. > > What do you want to know?
How does it compare to MRTG, Cricket, Cacti, and the various other commonly used monitoring systems that have been mentioned in this thread? Easier or harder to configure and maintain? More or less efficient in its SNMP queries? More or less of a load on the monitoring host? And so forth. Here's why I'm asking... Real Soon Now (hopefully later this month), I'm going to be making the initial release of the automated network config generation tool that I've been working on (see http://www.netomata.com/products/ncg). I'm working on an example of the tool's use to share, where it generates all the config files for a small one-rack web hosting operation (routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, Xen servers, Xen guests, DNS domains, etc.). I want to extend the example to include generating config files for a monitoring system (Munin, MRTG, Cricket, Cacti, or something similar), and I'm trying to decide which system to use for my example. Ideally, to maximize the useful life of the example, that would be the monitoring system that most folks _wish_ they were using (not necessarily the system that they _are_ using). So, I welcome attempts to convince my why I should choose one package or another to be the first one I implement support for in the example... ;-) Eventually, somebody (maybe me, maybe somebody else) will probably implement support for the various other monitoring packages as well, and show how easy it is with our tool to swap out one for another, but I have to choose one to start with. -Brent -- Brent Chapman <br...@netomata.com> Founder and CEO // Netomata, Inc. // www.netomata.com Making networks more reliable and flexible by automating network configuration _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
