[sllug-members]: Which Network Monitoring Solution?

[Nathan Lane]

I've used NSClient before, but Windows XP and server class Windows OSs all
have an SNMP client that you can install, so I'll probably stick with that
for now.

Thanks,

and I think I'll look into cacti.

Nathan

On Nov 28, 2007 9:36 AM, <weales at xmission.com> wrote:

> If you want to monitor Windows boxes via Nagios, there is an easy to
> use app called NSClient.  It runs as a service and sends info on the
> box to Nagios.  You can set Nagios up to show quite a lot about what
> services are running, disk space, uptime; all the usual stuff.  It can
> show you if the WWW service is running, but I don't know if it can
> show you whether a particular page is up...
>
> I tried Zenoss last spring, and I found it wasn't ready for prime time.
>
> Cacti, anoter good tool, and Nagios have a learning curve, but are
> very stable and easy to upgrade, once you've got the kinks of your
> installation worked out.
>
>
> Ron
>
>
>
>
> Quoting Nathan Lane <nathamberlane at gmail.com>:
>
> > Hi I am trying to get a network monitoring solution.  In the past we've
> > attempted to use Nagios, but couldn't figure out how to get it to
> monitor
> > whether a specific web page is accessible on a certain server.  Today I
> am
> > trying to set up an OpenNMS server to do the same thing, and I am still
> > running into road blocks - I can't find a straight forward solution and
> I've
> > been working on it for two days (same problem as with Nagios).  I just
> found
> > another one - Zenoss - and I'm wondering if it's any
> better/easier/simpler
> > to configure, or if it stands up to Nagios and OpenNMS.
> >
> > Our platform is Ubuntu server 7.
> >
> > Our environment is a mostly Windows XP/Server 2003 network
> >
> > We want to monitor ICMP, HTTP, FTP, SNMP, and most important and
> difficult
> > (apparently) whether or not specific websites are accessible constantly.
> >
> > Now I know that these [probably] all use slightly different models for
> > monitoring - Nagios is mostly SNMP, but has other capabilities and it's
> easy
> > to write plugins for using Perl.  OpenNMS has automatic "discovery" of
> > services, which we could really care less about, but it seems to be
> > difficult to make it check services that aren't "discovered", like this
> > website problem (discussed briefly above).  I haven't tried Zenoss yet,
> I
> > just discovered it on Sourceforge, and I've been lurking on their IRC
> > channel.  We currently use a commercial system called ipMonitor, which
> is
> > very pricey, and it doesn't even do everything that we want (though I
> can't
> > pinpoint what it was exactly that it doesn't do)  but the configuration
> part
> > of it is very self explanatory and straight forward.
> >
> > So I need some help - in two areas, which system should I use, or is
> there
> > one the one-ups all of these, and can anybody help me configure it to
> check
> > whether a specific web page is accessible from the server (following
> > redirects automatically)?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > --
> > Nathan Lane
> >
>
>
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Nathan Lane
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