[sclug] Monitoring and Alerting

[Mark Cooper]

Sapan Ganguly wrote:
> I have probably asked this before but can anyone recommend some good
> software for monitoring and alerting on a network of Linux machines? 

Have you looked at JFFNMS? ( http://www.jffnms.org )


> A couple of people here have spent about 3 months trying to make HP
> Openview do something useful and have failed.  I've looked at Nagios
> but it looked very fiddly to set up.  Cheops looks like it will do
> everything I need but it is no longer developed therefore there are no
> patches to stop it crashing.  Cheops-ng does not seem to being
> developed anymore either, it has no alerting facilities and is

Nagios is a waste of time IMHO. Cheops/-ng were good idea's but never 
came to anything. HP OpenView is the swiss army knife of NMS's but does 
need a (team) of dedicated administrators ;)


> therefore useless for me.  NINO looks pretty good but I am still
> trying to make it do everything I want, the alerting won't work for me

Haven't come across NINO before ( http://nino.sourceforge.net ? ), so 
I'm gonna take a look at that myself :)

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Mark Cooper
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