[olug] Open source monitoring system?

Curtis LaMasters curtislamasters at gmail.com
Thu Apr 16 19:09:12 UTC 2009


The number of servers and services that you are able to monitor with
nagios would also depend on the number of checks it has to do actively
(query).  As with most of the other solutions mentioned, most servers
can have an agent to push the data to nagios causing the overall load
on the server to drop.  NSCA is the protocol that nagios supports for
this type of communication.

Curtis LaMasters
http://www.curtis-lamasters.com
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On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Craig Wolf <CJWolf at mpsomaha.org> wrote:
> I have Linux/Windows servers now and once I figure out how to deploy it to NetWare and OS X, I will more than double the # of hosts.  I WAS running Nagios 2 on an HP 6120 laptop at my desk with 250+ hosts and around 1000 services, until I hosed it.  8)  It only had 1GB of ram and a single core intel proc...just as a reference.
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> Craig Wolf
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>>>> Carl Lundstedt <clundst at unlserve.unl.edu> 4/16/2009 >>>
> We use nagios to monitor our HPC cluster.  That's about ~200 workers,
> and 20+ service machines.  The 'tactical' page says 236 hosts with 2553
> service checks.  We don't have any windows machines in that group
> though.
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> Carl Lundstedt
> UNL
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> On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 11:38 -0500, Tony Reinke wrote:
>> I have used Nagios for small deployments (5-20 servers) but I am
>> wondering how it would work in a larger environment (5,000 servers,
>> mixed *nix and Windows).  Anyone used it on such a scale?  What are the
>> recommendations for such a monitoring task?
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>> Tony Reinke
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>> T. J. Brumfield wrote:
>> > I originally voted for Nagios (I also used it in the NetSaint days,
>> > which Harrahs used globally actually) and Zabbix.  Everyone is making
>> > a case for how flexible Nagios is, which it is.  However, the reason I
>> > use Zabbix today is because it is very simple to setup.  It even has
>> > auto-discovery.
>> >
>> > -- T. J.
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