[sllug-members]: Which Network Monitoring Solution?

[Reverend Willy]

Groundworks Opensource rocks.  I've implemented it in several companies, and
have absolutely no complaints about it.  I have also set it up to check
various webpages for content, status, etc., and it works very well.  Check
out http://www.nagiosexchange.org/ for any available plugins, and I'm sure
you find something for your needs.

On Nov 28, 2007 10:01 AM, Jeremiah Roth <phh at mac.com> wrote:

>
> On Nov 28, 2007, at 9:11 AM, Jeff Folsom wrote:
>
> > We use Groundworkopensource, www.groundworkopensource.com, which is
> > basically a juiced up configuration utility / monitoring suite and
> > we like it a great deal. You'll find that it simplifies your
> > ability to do tasks like you've described, as opposed to manual
> > nagios configuration.   We also used OpenNMS for quite a while, but
> > we had 2 problems:
> > 1) Maintenance is time consuming, and configuration is cryptic for
> > incoming admins.
> > 2) We needed network interface graphs, and the built-in support is
> > flaky at best, we ended up doing  a parallel install of Cacti
> > (www.cacti.net) to get all the functionality we needed.
> >
> > But, the autodiscovery of services was worth its weight in Sterling.
> >
> >
> > I've personally played with Zenoss a bit, and it is very nice, but
> > Zenoss clients have a habit of crashing, with little facility for
> > automatic restart.
> >
>
> I second the Groundwork recommendation.  Groundwork also has an auto-
> discovery feature that seems to work well on small - medium
> networks.  You can also integrate Cacti into the Groundwork interface
> and use single sign-on for both apps, giving you one place to go for
> all your monitoring.  Since GW uses nagios, you can use all the
> plugins available on the web or write your own in any language.
> Basically you just have to return an exit code (0=OK, 1=WARN,
> 2=CRITICAL) and print whatever you want to show up on the web page.
>
> Groundwork has a few frustrations, but overall I like it.  In recent
> releases (5.x) they've tacked on a Java extension called Foundation
> that's useful but adds a LOT of overhead to the machine (our machines
> went from 10% avg CPU utilization to almost 60% average).  It can be
> disabled however if you have a more lightweight machine doing your
> monitoring.
>
> -Jeremiah
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