Monitoring...

[Marcelo M. Garcia]

bruce wrote:
> Hey...
> 
> Got a situation where I'm looking to monitor processes running on different
> servers within a network. As I add servers (rea/virtual) I'd like to be able
> to easily/painlessly be able to then manage/monitor the processes on the
> additional systems as required.
> 
> I'm also looking for a method to be able to start/stop/enable/disable
> services/apps on the remote server(s)/instances as well...
> 
> And of course, I'd ike to be able to do all of this with a web based app!
> 
> I've started looking at nagios, which uses smnp to access the remote
> servers, implementing a pull process to get the information. Webmin looks
> potentially useful, but it appears to require that I setup webmin on each
> server that I want to handle from the master server (master monitoring app).
> 
> Any thoughts/comments/opinions on this?
> 
> thanks
> 
> -bruce
> 
Hi

Honestly, I think Nagios is the best option. It's well established, with 
a big community, huge collection of plugins, etc

Nagios is a world of it own. It seems from your e-mail that you didn't 
explore Nagios as you should.

Unfortunately I had to switch from Nagios to OpenNMS.

Regards

mg.