What open-source or low-budget tools are operators using for SLA monitoring when the reports (current state and historical) should be available to customers ?
Please define SLA in terms of monitoring.
- 99.x% availability (defined by packet loss and response time) monthly - A certain number of hours from service interruption to service recovery
Looking at NANOG archives, NAGIOS is the most prevalent tool, but its authorization mechanisms are somewhat below I would like so customers could not change anything both in configuration and in SLA software state
You can setup so that customer only sees the data on status of the services he or she has access to by adding customer into as a contact for host or services.
There are 2 main issues on my reading of http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/cgiauth.html - Users can issue commands for hosts/services they are contact for. They could acknowledge an outage even when we should know about it. - Some devices of interest to a customer are not specific to a customer: a switch, a router. If they are considered contact for such devices, they can issue commands for it.
Do you think that your customers should or should not have such access to your central nagios system?
That's something I woud like to hear opinions on, but even with NAGIOS such an issue could be solved by having one NOC-only NAGIOS and one customers-only NAGIOS. Using NagiosQL would be probably make replication easier.
I'm looking for something more like Cacti, where customers can be contained to only see some of the generated graphs.
Would you be satisfied with graphing extension to nagios that is tied replicates nagios security mechanism where customer can see graphs for the service he/she is listed as contact for?
Is it http://nagiosgraph.sourceforge.net/ ? Can a user be a nagiosgraph contact without being a NAGIOS contact ? Thanks, Rubens