[K12OSN] Re: build your own thin client

Nils Breunese nils at breun.nl
Mon Oct 30 19:03:36 UTC 2006


Les Mikesell wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 11:40 -0600, Mike Oliveri wrote:
>
>>> From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn- 
>>> bounces at redhat.com] On
>>> Behalf Of Huck
>>> *Huck's ears perk up at the mention of 'assortment' of monitoring
>>> software*
>
>>> Cacti is rock'n...and BackupPC...heavenly...
>>> any other tidbits of fun administrative software to share?
>
>> On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 11:40 -0600, Mike Oliveri wrote:
>> If you have a lot of systems and services to monitor, check out  
>> Nagios:
>> www.nagios.org
>
> Some of the stuff I need to display is home-grown and specialized
> and I'd just like to replace the multi-headed windows boxes with
> thin clients.  But, some is cacti and some is a program called
> 'spong' that I found many years ago.  It is still around at
> http://spong.sourceforge.net/ but I'd probably use nagios or
> zabbix for small-scale things that do notifications if I were
> starting now.   However I need something that scales up and does
> both snmp and other probes and does historical graphs along with
> notifications.   I think that's going to be opennms although
> it is more difficult than some of the others to install since it
> needs the Sun jdk and tomcat as the web server installed first.
> http://www.opennms.org.

We're using ZABBIX and I love it. No where near as much work as  
setting up Nagios and it does all you're listing here: SNMP, custom  
probes, historical graphs, notifications. I recommend everyone to  
check it out (http://www.zabbix.com/). According to their website it  
scales pretty well too, they have tested ZABBIX with 5000 monitored  
devices and services.

Nils Breunese.
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