Nesser, Phil (nesser) writes:
It has been a while since I have had to seriously think about network/system/application monitoring and now I have got to look at it. Can anyone point me towards:
1. Serious documents on monitoring (i.e. not vendor whitepapers)
Hi Phil, There's lots of different papers out there -- define serious. Is an online column comparing monitoring systems serious enough ? What focus ? Best practices ? Agent vs SNMP based, etc... Topics are varied.
2. Open Source Tools that you use or would recommend (I know the obvious smokeping, mrtg, nagios).
That can be a long thread as well... Nagios, OpenNMS, Zabbix, Hyperic, ZenOSS - for the application/ service/server/network monitoring, and Cacti, Smokeping, NFsen for capacity/availability monitoring. We used Nagios and co. until a few years ago, when we figured it wouldn't scale for large networks. Then we wrote our own :) Cheers, Phil