Net monitoring solution

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Hello,

I am looking for a net monitoring solution, to monitor some hosts load averages, memory consumption, I/O perfomance, mails received etc.
Have some experience with rt, but not RTIR/RTFM (what are they? some ‘shells’ around RT or what?)
So far I have installed nagios but alas - it seems it doesn’t provide convenient graphs on ‘normal’ activity, it does provide them on outages and failures…

I am a capable Perl/PHP engeneer, familiar with rrdtool. I think nagios + n2rrd + rrdtool + rt(rtir?) is what I am looking for. Other options include some SNMP daemon with cacti or oreon, again coupled with rt.

Unfortunately I am not familiar with SNMP, so I don’t know what direction to dig at. Could anyone please share his experience on this matter? I think that’s quite a common task to monitor hosts activity, to plot these graphs and receive fault notifications.

Any help would be appreciated thankfully.

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Viktor wrote:

I am looking for a net monitoring solution, to monitor some hosts load averages, memory consumption, I/O perfomance, mails received etc.
Have some experience with rt, but not RTIR/RTFM (what are they? some ‘shells’ around RT or what?)
So far I have installed nagios but alas - it seems it doesn’t provide convenient graphs on ‘normal’ activity, it does provide them on outages and failures…

I am a capable Perl/PHP engeneer, familiar with rrdtool. I think nagios + n2rrd + rrdtool + rt(rtir?) is what I am looking for. Other options include some SNMP daemon with cacti or oreon, again coupled with rt.

Unfortunately I am not familiar with SNMP, so I don’t know what direction to dig at. Could anyone please share his experience on this matter? I think that’s quite a common task to monitor hosts activity, to plot these graphs and receive fault notifications.

Any help would be appreciated thankfully.

Generally you just enable snmp on the hosts and run a polling/monitor
package to collect and plot the results. Cacti is pretty easy to set
up, but if you have enough hosts to make auto-discovery worth the effort
of a more complex package you might like opennms: http://www.opennms.org.

Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@gmail.com

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Subject: [rt-users] Net monitoring solution

Hello,

I am looking for a net monitoring solution, to monitor some hosts load
averages, memory consumption, I/O perfomance, mails received etc.
Have some experience with rt, but not RTIR/RTFM (what are they? some
‘shells’ around RT or what?)
So far I have installed nagios but alas - it seems it doesn’t provide
convenient graphs on ‘normal’ activity, it does provide them on
outages
and failures…

I am a capable Perl/PHP engeneer, familiar with rrdtool. I think
nagios

  • n2rrd + rrdtool + rt(rtir?) is what I am looking for. Other options
    include some SNMP daemon with cacti or oreon, again coupled with rt.

Unfortunately I am not familiar with SNMP, so I don’t know what
direction to dig at. Could anyone please share his experience on this
matter? I think that’s quite a common task to monitor hosts activity,
to plot these graphs and receive fault notifications.

Any help would be appreciated thankfully.

[Kelly F. Hickel] Take a look at Zenoss http://www.zenoss.com
-Kelly

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Viktor,
I currently use Nagios for monitoring and Orca for graphing, however I am
trying out a new Nagios plugin called NagiosGrapher that is supposed to
create graphs based on the data collected by Nagios. Check out
www.nagiosexchange.org for all the Nagios plugins you could ever want.

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Subject: [rt-users] Net monitoring solution

Hello,

I am looking for a net monitoring solution, to monitor some hosts load
averages, memory consumption, I/O perfomance, mails received etc.
Have some experience with rt, but not RTIR/RTFM (what are they? some
‘shells’ around RT or what?) So far I have installed nagios but alas - it
seems it doesn’t provide convenient graphs on ‘normal’ activity, it does
provide them on outages and failures…

I am a capable Perl/PHP engeneer, familiar with rrdtool. I think nagios +
n2rrd + rrdtool + rt(rtir?) is what I am looking for. Other options include
some SNMP daemon with cacti or oreon, again coupled with rt.

Unfortunately I am not familiar with SNMP, so I don’t know what direction to
dig at. Could anyone please share his experience on this matter? I think
that’s quite a common task to monitor hosts activity, to plot these graphs
and receive fault notifications.

Any help would be appreciated thankfully.
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