[olug] System monitoring

[Bill Brush]

Typically a VM that you care about has a regular IP address (as in
non-NAT'ed via the host) and therefore looks like any other machine on
the network.  We have an extensive VMware setup here and we use nagios
to monitor all of them.

Bill

On 9/9/06, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/6/06, Craig Wolf <CJWolf at mpsomaha.org> wrote:
> >
> 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.
>