Server monitoring and alerts software?

Question

What software does everyone use to monitor equipment? I know about nagios and cacti, but does anyone use any other software?

Answer 1

SolarWinds IPMonitor is pretty useful. A bit like cacti or nagios, but more pleasing to the eyes. Windows only, not free (not even in "free beer") .; -)

Answer 2

http://www.zabbix.com/ is also good - comparable to Nagios and Cacti at least.

Answer 3

OpenNMS is not bad if you have a large number of servers and you need to conduct comprehensive monitoring.

Answer 4

To monitor a server without having to install any software on your server, take a look at my company ServerMonitoringHQ.com "Server Monitoring"

Answer 5

To control the hardware of the HP Proliant servers and HP Blade centers, I can recommend Nagios (or Shinken if you want to be avant-garde) with the check_hpasm plugin.

Answer 6

I used mon and munin . I like munin because of its simplicity and flexibility.

Answer 7

My company has just started using Nagios mainly to track uptime. What are its difficulties, would you look for another solution? Is the scale or lack of monitoring capabilities?

Answer 8

Consider using a service such as Alertra (alertra.com) if you do not want to start the monitoring server yourself. We have been using this for about a year and are very pleased with it.

Answer 9

We use Zenoss to monitor our systems. It was much easier for us to work with OpenNMS.

Answer 10

We use NAGIOS for everything and god at a lower level / in the rails application.

I would be happy to provide you with more detailed information if you would give us more detailed information about what exactly you are looking for or trying to accomplish.

Answer 11

You can use RHQ (http://rhq-project.org/). Although not very powerful on the hardware side, it provides support for many services. Graphical and alerts are available out of the box, and support for new / other types of managed resources can be provided through plugins. RHQ is open source and has recently released version 4.0 with a new new graphical interface. RHQ also offers a command line interface that allows you to create scripts.