LF Simple but functional local and remote linux system monitoring

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On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Teddy Mills wrote:

>
> I tried installing Zabbix,  it requires NET-SNMP, and getting SNMP
> server and
> clients to work on both Fedora Core 2 and Windows servers it is getting
> way way too complicated.
>
> Isnt there a more simple and easy to use system monitoring tool out
> there, that is
>
> 1) reasonably easy to install
> 2) preferrably doesnt require SNMP, or Perl modules, or  other gotcha's
> that you have to go search, install  and get working
> 3) can  remotely monitor several linux and windows servers...
> 4) is web based and can provide graphs

My predecessor installed Nagios (http://www.nagios.org) and, while it is
pretty complicated, it does do a pretty decent job. We use it to track a
bunch of servers and various services that each server provides. It's
web-based and provides graphs, but I'm betting that it does require a few
Perl modules -- nothing exotic.

> I understand if I dont use SNMP, then I have to go with a less accurate
> polling monitoring system.
> I dont care, as long as it works.

We use NRPE, or Nagios Remote PlugIn Executor, to run stuff on remote
machines so we can track disk usage, load, that kind of useful stuff. I
guss it depends what you want to monitor -- if it's racks of equipment
that only talk SNMP, then I guess it's that or nothing.

Alex


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