Systerm Monitoring

[Jonathan Billings]

On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 09:58:29AM +0100, Trevor Hemsley wrote:
> I removed Zabbix from our environment because it was too resource
> intensive (it wanted to use about 50% cpu on a quad core 2.4GHz, 8GB RAM
> machine) just to monitor a few dozen servers. Maybe I could have done
> some investigation of why it was like this but the product was installed
> by a colleague who'd spent about 4 months getting it to this point.

One of the reasons I moved away from zabbix is that it opens up a
connection to the monitored host's zabbix agent for every single item
that it is monitoring -- and the default template for linux includes
about a hundred items, so every time it checks a host it makes at
least 100 connections to the same host.

-- 
Jonathan Billings <jonathan.billings at umich.edu>