recommendations on server monitoring software for unix/linux/windows as well as databases (oracle, sql, etc)
hello, subject line says it all....I was looking around and big brother seems like a good product and not too expensive. BMC has this type of products but very $$$$. I can't afford those prices! I just need to monitor several remote sites with mail servers, databases, routers...etc. You get the picture. Thanks, Oskar ps. I've used compaq's insight manager at some sights that had all compaq machines....this worked good enough...but only works on compaqs! However, it uses too much resources on the admin. workstation. Something that has this sort of functionality but with efficient use of resources......Big Brother is the best I've found so far..
Quoting pheonix1t <pheonix1t@houston.rr.com>:
hello, subject line says it all....I was looking around and big brother seems like a good product and not too expensive. BMC has this type of products but very $$$$. I can't afford those prices! I just need to monitor several remote sites with mail servers, databases, routers...etc. You get the picture.
Look also at Nagios, formerly NetSaint. It is on most versions of SuSE under one name or the other. http://www.nagios.org/ HTH, Jeffrey
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 01:49, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
Quoting pheonix1t <pheonix1t@houston.rr.com>:
I just need to monitor several remote sites with mail servers, databases, routers...etc. You get the picture.
Look also at Nagios, formerly NetSaint. It is on most versions of SuSE under one name or the other.
SuSE RPMs are available at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/stark/nagios.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffrey L. Taylor" <suse@austinblues.dyndns.org> To: <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 1:49 AM Subject: Re: [SLE] recommendations on server monitoring software for unix/linux/windows as well as databases (oracle, sql, etc)
Quoting pheonix1t <pheonix1t@houston.rr.com>:
hello, subject line says it all....I was looking around and big brother seems like a good product and not too expensive. BMC has this type of products but very $$$$. I can't afford those prices! I just need to monitor several remote sites with mail servers, databases, routers...etc. You get the picture.
Look also at Nagios, formerly NetSaint. It is on most versions of SuSE under one name or the other.
I checked this out...it looks cool, but from reading the about page, it says it's made to work on unixes or linuxes...I don't see windows on there. Unfortunately, I also need to keep track of windows servers too! thanks for the link though, this looks like it should work great for unix/linux machines. Now I just have to get windows machines covered... Oskar
HTH, Jeffrey
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On Tuesday 29 July 2003 16.54, pheonix1t wrote: Have you checked BigBrother? http://bb4.com/ A nice monitoring suite with plugins for all kinds of stuff Unix/Windows and some other platforms too. -- /Rikard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rikard Johnels email : rikjoh@norweb.se Web : http://www.rikjoh.com Mob : +46 70 464 99 39 ------------------------ Public PGP fingerprint ---------------------------- < 15 28 DF 78 67 98 B2 16 1F D3 FD C5 59 D4 B6 78 46 1C EE 56 >
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 09:54, pheonix1t wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffrey L. Taylor" <suse@austinblues.dyndns.org>
Look also at Nagios, formerly NetSaint. It is on most versions of SuSE under one name or the other.
I checked this out...it looks cool, but from reading the about page, it says it's made to work on unixes or linuxes...I don't see windows on there. Unfortunately, I also need to keep track of windows servers too!
It runs on *nix, but it will monitor Windows machines and services just fine. I have a Nagios installation on an old P90 with SuSE 8.0 that is keeping track of several remote Windows servers (running MS-SQL, IIS, ftp, Oracle, etc.) and Linux boxes (Apache, MySQL, qmail, etc.).
thanks for the link though, this looks like it should work great for unix/linux machines. Now I just have to get windows machines covered... Oskar
Nagios has you covered. -- Scott Jones (scott at exti dot net)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Jones" <scott@exti.net> To: <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 3:39 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] recommendations on server monitoring software for unix/linux/windows as well as databases (oracle, sql, etc)
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 09:54, pheonix1t wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffrey L. Taylor" <suse@austinblues.dyndns.org>
Look also at Nagios, formerly NetSaint. It is on most versions of SuSE under one name or the other.
I checked this out...it looks cool, but from reading the about page, it says it's made to work on unixes or linuxes...I don't see windows on there. Unfortunately, I also need to keep track of windows servers too!
It runs on *nix, but it will monitor Windows machines and services just fine. I have a Nagios installation on an old P90 with SuSE 8.0 that is keeping track of several remote Windows servers (running MS-SQL, IIS, ftp, Oracle, etc.) and Linux boxes (Apache, MySQL, qmail, etc.).
thanks for the link though, this looks like it should work great for unix/linux machines. Now I just have to get windows machines covered... Oskar
Nagios has you covered.
cool! Thanks a lot gang :) hey....since we're on the server topic....anyone here have experience working on HP netserver LH 4 boxes? I just set one up....everything was going fine. I finally get to the point of powering down the server after all the software installs and configs.....I put it into the spot where it's going to be for production, install all the wires...and then...no video! After 1 hour or so on the phone with HP support, they tell me it needs a system board ( the board where the CPU's and RAM sit). Anyone have a good source for these boards....can anyone confirm this problem? A new sytem board from HP is about $1000..... I'm thinking of ebay.....but I'll wait and see what you guys say. Then...in another place.....winNT4 server, viruses spread like wildfire all over the place....it's been a shitty day today! take care, Oskar
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:41:02PM -0500, pheonix1t wrote:
I just need to monitor several remote sites with mail servers, databases, routers...etc. You get the picture.
Try mon. The RPM is included in 8.2 or go to http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/admin/mon/html/ Mon is way more simple than Nagios and in most cases does not require an agent. Regards, -Kastus
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