System monitoring

[dgavin at davegavin.com (David Gavin)]

Cole Tuininga said:
>
> Hi all - I was wondering what experiences folks on the list have had
> with various centralized (software based) system monitors.  I'm thinking
> something along the lines of Big Brother (http://bb4.com) but open
> sourced.
>
> I'm currently looking at Big Sister (http://bigsister.graeff.com) but
> I'm curious to hear if anybody else has experiences with other packages
> that they like?  What do you like about it?  How easy was it to set up?
> (etc)
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 I switched from bb to nagios a while ago and although it takes a little
while to get the initial configuration set up it's a very good system. I
use it to monitor about 60 systems, mostly Linux RH
7.3/8.0/9.0/Fedora/RHEL3, with a couple of WinXP, Cisco, and
miscellaneous boxes thrown in for variety. I've extended the system to
monitor total processes, disk space, load, and a few other details with
perl scripts and once it's all set up it's very reliable.

Dave Gavin


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