[SOLVED] Server monitoring software

[cancaseiro]

Hi!

Can someone please recommend good server monitoring software?

[mzar]

Zabbiq or Nagios Web.

[cancaseiro]

Zabbiq or Nagios Web.

Thanks but I didn't find anything about Zabbiq from Google.

[cancaseiro]

Has anyone used iLO (http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/ilo/)?

Pros, cons?

[MJN]

Thanks but I didn't find anything about Zabbiq from Google.

Try Zabbix - did Google not suggest it? (it's usually quite good in that regard)

(Incidentally I have no experience of Zabbix, just Google! ;))

Mathew

[rickyjones]

Has anyone used iLO (http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/ilo/)?

Pros, cons?

iLO isn't exactly for monitoring servers in my experience (that, and it's only available on servers that have the hardware installed). Personally I use Nagios on my home and client networks. My employer uses Orion and HP Insight Manager to monitor and page though.

-Richard

[cancaseiro]

iLO isn't exactly for monitoring servers in my experience (that, and it's only available on servers that have the hardware installed). Personally I use Nagios on my home and client networks. My employer uses Orion and HP Insight Manager to monitor and page though.

-Richard

Ok, I am searching on anyways. I want to find definitly the best one and will not rush with deciding what to use.

[nocturn]

Nagios is very, very good. Heard many good things about the new ZenOSS core.

Tried Zabbix, not so great IMO

[wirelessmonkey]

Groundworkopensource (www.groundworkopensource.com) is wonderful, easy to install/configure, and just plain nifty. However, I use openNMS for network monitoring and to get server status, i.e. uptime, throughput, traffic, disk status, logged in users, memory usage, cpu stats. I also use Cacti to monitor uptime and graph network utilization, users, cpu/memory stats. openNMS provides tons of hard data, and I love the easy to use graphing capability of Cacti.

[orotrev]

I have found Zabbix to do the job well. I currently have it monitoring 4 systems. I though it was relatively easy to setup and configure. iLO, in my experience on HP server, stands for integrated lights out. It is a way to access a system even though it is down. With iLO you can power a system up or down, as if you were right in front of it and using the integrated VNC client see the post of the system. I believe, as is the case with HP iLO it can be integrated into their Insight Manager. But give Zabbix a shot.

[quietas]

Hehe, I'd definately add a second for Nagios. I've got it on my network here at work monitoring 6 locations throughout the state, 14 servers, 12 routers, 22 switches, 15 print servers, and more.

It's able to monitor specific IP's or a range of IP's, and on those it can watch for specific servers such as HTTP or FTP. Between emails and text messages I know within a minute normally of a server or router going out, I have print servers set at 5 minutes, and there is plenty of more options available.

[rbprogrammer]

i personally use webmin (http://www.webmin.com/), and the old fashioned ssh..

did you try webmin yet?

[cancaseiro]

i personally use webmin (http://www.webmin.com/), and the old fashioned ssh..

did you try webmin yet?

I just installed Webmin and Cacti and will test them.

[GigaVolt]

Hi,

View this solution: http://mon.itor.us/ \\:D/

[shizzy-t]

I have to say I really like Open NMS http://www.opennms.org/index.php/Main_Page

It does network auto discovery and has tons of features.

[cancaseiro]

I have problem with cacti. Actually with SNMP: Cascti says: SNMP error. How can I overcome that?

[Brazen]

Nagios is by far the most popular open source monitoring software (probably one of the most popular even compared to proprietary software). The only question is which management front-end to use. Personally, I'm interested in Oreon (now called Centreon, or something like that) though I have not tried it out yet.

[wirelessmonkey]

cancaseiro,

You need to install the snmp server on your machine.

[cancaseiro]

cancaseiro,

You need to install the snmp server on your machine.

I have installed it with apt-get install snmpd.

[HermanAB]

Zabbix is the easiest to install and scales to hundreds of nodes.
OpenNMS is the most difficult to instal, but it scales very well to tens of thousands of nodes.
Nagios is in between.

[ftk]

Take a look at JFFNMS http://www.jffnms.org/

I use it at work monitoring 500+ machines with alerts, etc...Plus you can give management a nice dashboard view of what's going on if needed.