[Wylug-discuss] Call for talks/ideas for talks

[John Hodrien]

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, RichardA wrote:

>>> I'd find it interesting to hear about what people are using these
>>> days for server resource & usage monitoring, Graphing things like
>>> network activity, apache & database accesses, memory usage, process
>>> counts etc.
>>
>> rtg, smokeping, nagios, all with lots of custom plugins for random
>> stuff like server room temperature etc
>
> Nagios for alerting and Cacti for graphs, running on Ubuntu... in a
> Novell/MS shop. We fought with Insight Manager for a while, then
> decided to just use something that actually works.

I quite liked nagios with pnp.  Peasy to set up, and gives you monitoring with
historical graphing all in one lump.

jh

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