[olug] System monitoring

[Rob Townley]

On 9/6/06, Craig Wolf <CJWolf at mpsomaha.org> wrote:
> So I am working on a project at the office when my boss says that in conjunction with our new SAN deployment, he wants to have some system monitoring.  He wants to be able to goto a central computer/screen and be able to look at the overall health of the network/servers.
>
> Other than Big Brother (which Adam has repeatedly tongue lashed me for NOT running), what other software do people use??  Not just Linux, has to be able to pull info from Windows, Linux, and even traditional NetWare (although over the next 6-8 months that will start to diminish as we move to OES Linux).
>
> So, what is everyone using???  Thanx to all in advance and ask me for more info if needed!
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> Craig Wolf
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i don't have much experience with this sort of software, so i did not
want to comment.  But does BB or Nagios cover Virtual Machines?  i
didn't think it would matter as long as the guest OS is on the
supported list of OSs until i read the latest SourceForge newsletter,
which mentions OpenQRM.org because it covers Xen, VMWare, and QEMU as
well as Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Windows and has plugins for Nagios
and Webmin.  Does NOT cover Netware.

The other open source projects would be the glpi-project.org as a
plug-in to glpi-project.org, but again i have tested them.