Re: Servers monitoring
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 18:04 +0200, Emmanuel Halbwachs wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Arnau a écrit :
> > I'm not sure if this is the proper list to send this question, but as
> > I haven't found any list called debian-administrators, anybody knows if
> > anything similar exists?
>
> I don't think so. There is an --excellent IMHO-- website from Steve Kemp
> that tries to aggregate useful resources for debian administration
> http://www.debian-administration.org/
> but I don't know any mail list.
>
> > Which program do you use to monitor your systems?
>
> Personnally I use nagios and I am happy with it. I used to use mon
> but switched to Nagios one year ago, mostly to have a "better"
> web interface.
>
> > there are so many out there...
>
> Yes : mon, big brother (no debs), big sister (no debs), zabbix (no
> debs).
>
> > I have been using MRTG to monitor the CPU load of my
>
> I can see different goals here :
>
> - monitoring the availability (status OK or not) of services/hosts and
> being warned if something goes wrong (no more answer, value over/under
> a threshold, etc.)
>
> - recording variables values over time (load, disk space, bandwidth,
> etc.) fot history
>
> RRDTool (MRTG, Cacti, cricket, etc.) is useful for the second one
> whereas nagios and al. for the first one.
>
> Of course, You can have both but I don't know if one tool fits the
> two goals.
>
> I'm shure the honourable assembly will correct me :-)
>
> HTH,
>
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>
>
Perfparse is pretty good for the second goal, although you will need
plugins that support performance data. This means a package from sid
unfortunately, but since they're only static files, it isn't so much of
a problem.
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