Re: monitoring tools

[Phil Regnauld <regnauld () catpipe net>]

Nesser, Phil (nesser) writes:
> It has been a while since I have had to seriously think about network/system/application monitoring and now I have 
> got to look at it.  Can anyone point me towards:
>
> 1.  Serious documents on monitoring (i.e.  not vendor whitepapers)

        Hi Phil,

        There's lots of different papers out there -- define serious.
        Is an online column comparing monitoring systems serious enough ?
        What focus ?  Best practices ?  Agent vs SNMP based, etc...  Topics
        are varied.

> 2.  Open Source Tools that you use or would recommend (I know the obvious smokeping, mrtg, nagios).

        That can be a long thread as well...
        Nagios, OpenNMS, Zabbix, Hyperic, ZenOSS - for the application/
        service/server/network monitoring, and Cacti, Smokeping, NFsen
        for capacity/availability monitoring.

        We used Nagios and co. until a few years ago, when we figured it
        wouldn't scale for large networks.  Then we wrote our own :)

        Cheers,
        Phil