Re: network monitoring

2004-10-31 Thread Volker Tanger
Greetings! On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 14:17:35 +0100 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Andrew Miehs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.31.0907 +0100]: > > On the one hand, you are happy to install via nfs, but on the > > other hand, you want monitoring done via 'ssh'? > > Well, I agree

Re: network monitoring

2004-10-31 Thread Peter Hicks
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 02:25:02PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: >I would like to monitor all the nodes of a cluster, but I am rather >pressed for time so that I cannot investigate all the options. > >I tried spong, but it's pretty bad especially because it requires >changes to the client to specif

Re: network monitoring

2004-10-31 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 02:17:35PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > Nagios mainly uses SNMP to pull its data - authenitcated but not > > encrypted. Big Sister - Have heard its similar to big brother > > - simple to set up (compared to nagios) and for your small network > > should be more than adeq

Re: network monitoring

2004-10-31 Thread Andrew Miehs
Sorry Mike, You are correct - I should have said 'I use nagios for SNMP'... I have too many other boxes that don't speak 'ssh' and as such, try and use one method for all of them. In my environment, I do not pass any data (health data) which needs encryption, so SNMP is perfect for my requiremen

Re: network monitoring

2004-10-31 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Sunday 31 October 2004 14:17, martin f krafft wrote: > > This way you could possibly reduce your internal secuity > > requirements, and not need encryption everywhere. Just make sure > > you back up your data regularily > > The problem is people plugging laptops in on the cluster side. > If peo

Re: network monitoring

2004-10-31 Thread Mike Gerber
> Nagios mainly uses SNMP to pull its data - authenitcated but not encrypted. That is just wrong. Nagios uses whatever you want to pull its data, if you can script it, you can do it. Personally, I mainly use SSH to execute Nagios plugins on remote servers. That's built-in in the nagios-plugins (th

Re: network monitoring

2004-10-31 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Andrew Miehs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.31.0907 +0100]: > On the one hand, you are happy to install via nfs, but on the > other hand, you want monitoring done via 'ssh'? Well, I agree that NFS is somewhat of a kludge. However, I want SSH to contact the servers to execute commands to

Re: network monitoring

2004-10-31 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi Martin, I am a little confused with your requirements - On the one hand, you are happy to install via nfs, but on the other hand, you want monitoring done via 'ssh'? If you really need this much security, you should probably look at implementing ALL your connections via IPSEC - and possibly

Re: network monitoring

2004-10-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 02:25:02PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > I would like to monitor all the nodes of a cluster, but I am rather > pressed for time so that I cannot investigate all the options. > > I tried spong, but it's pretty bad especially because it requires > changes to the client to s

Re: network monitoring

2004-10-30 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.30.1508 +0200]: > Just use the source and compile it yourself - it doesn't have many > dependencies (works like a charm with woody) and has a quite good > configuration-sample. No way. :) PS: Please read the first sentence of my signature. It

Re: network monitoring

2004-10-30 Thread Markus Oswald
Am Sa, den 30.10.2004 schrieb martin f krafft um 15:00: > Argh. Even with nagios-text, it wants to pull in Samba and MySQL > stuff. I don't want either of these installed. Just use the source and compile it yourself - it doesn't have many dependencies (works like a charm with woody) and has a qui

Re: network monitoring

2004-10-30 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.30.1454 +0200]: > > Have you already looked at Nagios? (http://www.nagios.org) > > No. I will. Argh. Even with nagios-text, it wants to pull in Samba and MySQL stuff. I don't want either of these installed. Plus, it has just been orphaned.

Re: network monitoring

2004-10-30 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.30.1442 +0200]: > How big is your cluster and what do you want to monitor? 40 nodes, and I basically need availability and ssh. > Have you already looked at Nagios? (http://www.nagios.org) No. I will. > You'll have to write a few configurat

Re: network monitoring

2004-10-30 Thread Markus Oswald
Am Sa, den 30.10.2004 schrieb martin f krafft um 14:25: > I would like to monitor all the nodes of a cluster, but I am rather > pressed for time so that I cannot investigate all the options. [...] > So my question is: which network monitoring system would you > recommend, given my requirements? Ho

Re: network monitoring using graphs and status

2000-11-16 Thread Martin Alfke
Hi, did you also take a look at the rrdtool? http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/ On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Christian Hammers wrote: > Hello > > I have a simple problem but find no suitable programs and won't reinvent > the wheel so I ask here for suggestions. > > I'l looking for

Re: network monitoring using graphs and status

2000-11-15 Thread James Tyson
> MRTG was also not so suitable as it depends too strongly on traffic > analyses and is incapable of showing e.g. three graphs in one picture and > I like to have as much information on one HTML page. You want to look at RRDtool, which is written by the same guy that wrote MRTG, except it's much

RE: network monitoring using graphs and status

2000-11-15 Thread Joe
I recommend using Big Brother. http://www.bb4.com/ It has many features that you may want and if there isn't something you want there are lots of plugins for it that may do what you want, or you can always write your own. A collection of plugins for BB can be found at http://www.deadcat.net. I

Re: network monitoring using graphs and status

2000-11-15 Thread Alexander Reelsen
Hi On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 03:34:45PM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote: > I'l looking for a program to monitor our ISP network servers and routers > that is capable of doing > 1. checking different services (like mon, netsaint) > 2. showing nice graphs of cpu load and disc-space and traffic (like M