System Monitoring Tool

[Russell Harrison]

On 3/3/07, Chris St. Pierre <stpierre at nebrwesleyan.edu> wrote:

> If you're looking for historical monitoring of these resources, for
> upgrade planning, etc., then Cacti is very slick.
>
> If you're looking for event-based monitoring -- i.e., something that
> will page you when you run out of memory or Tomcat dies -- Nagios is
> great.  The learning curve can be steep, but it's worth it in the
> end.  It also has several plugins to do historical monitoring.



+1 for the nagios, cacti combo.