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
