[olug] System monitoring

[wferrel]

In a previous life I had Nagios setup and monitoring several Windows and 
Unix servers, routers, network switches, etc, etc.  As stated before 
setup was a trick, but then (after having initial setup completed, 
*grumble*) I stumbled over nagmin which is a plugin for webmin that uses 
a SQL DB to store the nagios config and give you an easy to manage, 
point-click-type interface to nagios that includes a nice interface to 
the error checking procedures.  Onc you've eliminated the errors and 
commit the changes it pulls the config from the DB and dumps it to the 
flat config files nagios runs on.

Made the occasional config changes much easier to manage and made it 
much easier to pass the hat when I moved on.

    Wes

Craig Wolf wrote:

>I am just making my way through the replies (been in meetings since I sent the message) and I am NOT knocking BB at all, just wanting to see who is using what in what environment so I can make a recommendation.  I MAY have to hire someone to come in and setup the machine and get us started and go from there when we move into our new diggs.  This has not been decided so......I am again thanking ANYONE who replies with what they are using.  :)
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>Craig Wolf
>Linux Web Server Support
>Desktop/Network Specialist
>402-894-6283
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>>>>adamh at aiminstitute.org 9/6/2006 >>>
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>I knew everyone would start pitching nagios because it's the latest and
>greatest, but don't knock Big Brother just because it's old. Especially in
>your case, where you want to monitor windows, linux, mac and netware, it
>can handle all. It's client/server based, so it does service polling (port
>scans, etc) from the server, but also aggregates client data through a
>service running on each client. I've used it since '99 with great success,
>even written a few plugins for it. I can even help you set it up, Craig :)
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>http://bb4.org/ <- Main Site
>http://deadcat.net <- 3rd party plugins
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