[olug] Open source monitoring system?

[Chris St. Pierre]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, 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?

There was a presentation at LISA a couple of years ago by someone who
was using Nagios to monitor loads of machines:

http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa07/tech/

"Deploying Nagios in a Large Enterprise Environment"
Carson Gaspar, Goldman Sachs

It can be done, but it takes some doing.

Chris St. Pierre
Unix Systems Administrator
Nebraska Wesleyan University