Re: Opensource or Low Cost NMS for Server Hardware / Application Monitoring

["Alex H. Ryu" <r.hyunseog () ieee org>]

It really depends on your application server configuration.
Most people just uses SNMP for this purpose.
Something like net-snmp installed in servers, then monitor the info via
SNMP MIB polling.

Alex


Matthew Huff wrote:
> I think all of these comments are useful. but we are looking for NMS for
> server/application monitoring, not snmp/dmi based polling. We will need a
> system that runs custom scripts to monitor our servers (CPU, OS syslogs,
> Windows Event logs, hardware, memory, etc) and our in-house applications
> running on these servers (100+). Native agents for windows 2003, 2008, Linux
> and Solaris (both Sparc and x86) with custom scripting is a minimum
> requirements. There are a lot of good network router/switch solutions, but
> we are looking for some that are more focused on server based management. We
> used to use BMC patrol which was a very good system. We moved away from it
> because it was extremely pricey per-node and BMC absolute rejection of
> Solaris X86 as a supported platform (We went back and forth between Sun and
> BMC regarding that for over a year).
>
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>   
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Will Clayton [mailto:wclayton () corenap com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 12:58 PM
> > To: nanog () nanog org
> > Subject: Re: Opensource or Low Cost NMS for Server Hardware /
> > Application Monitoring
> >
> > Eric Gauthier wrote:
> >     
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > >
> > >       
> > > > As for server / application / random other stuff (like printers and
> > > > ups's and IP camera and the like), Zenoss is great -- its clean,
> > > > simple, fast(ish), easy  and pretty -- the last one happens to be
> > > > important for some folks (esp in the enterprise world...)
> > > >
> > > >         
> > > We've looked at ZenOSS but couldn't get it to model the network.
> > > > From what we can tell, it couldn't handle the full routing table
> > > on our core routers (there are six).  If someone has successfully
> > > done this, can you contact me off list?
> > >
> > > Eric :)
> > >       
> > I like NMIS. Fast, scalable, flexible and really hackable. It doesn't
> > take much time to get it up and running but selling others on it can be
> > challenging. It works off of flat tab delimited text files making
> > populating the node base pretty easy. There are plans for NMIS5 to use
> > database connectivity for this which will be even more fun. There are
> > external contributions that do everything from RANCID to Flash maps of
> > your network. The home page is here:
> >
> > http://sins.com.au/nmis/
> >
> > But has since moved to sourceforge:
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/nmis/files/
> >
> > With the gang being here:
> >
> > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/nmis_users/
> >
> > While not for everyone and not as popular or pretty as some of the
> > others, it is a network monitoring system built by engineers for
> > engineers. With a combination of SNMP data collection and ping/service
> > tests, bandwidth utilization alerts, alert groups, thresholds etc. can
> > be adjusted on a per-device basis and just a week of utilization can
> > really help you identify points on the network that need to be cleaned
> > up.
> >
> > I guess my favorite part is the ability to write device interface
> > descriptions to trigger actions in the Perl script since that data is
> > collected via SNMP.
> >
> > --
> > Will Clayton
> >
> >     
>
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