Best monitoring tool

Hey Guys

Looking for a good monitoring tool to monitor all our systems, Physical Machines VMs (vMware), all our network gear Fibre channel gear and UPS.

Been messing with Zenoss seems ok but is a little fiddley to configure.


Something easy to roll out and configure, and opensource

Whats everyone using these days ? Nagios? Cacti ?

 

"all our systems"

bit too broad there, specifics?

 

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Can a mod take a break from banning IAC for trolling, and sticky on of the myriad of threads on this topic.

I suggest http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?t=1010732&highlight=monitoring

but the General Nagios thread might be a good choice as well.

 

My recommendation remains the same as per the previous thread.

 

Whats going to monitor the monitor?

 

a fitbit?

 

It's funny you should say that, we've recently switched over to Panopta (www.panopta.com) for this. Unlike Pingdom, Panopta have a POP in Sydney and Melbourne.

We now have a few thousand checks running across three different platforms and from multiple countries... and I'm still looking at more

 

I've got:
MXTOOLBOX - monitoring SMTP Server outages from a mail server perspective.
PINGDOM - monitoring SMTP Server from a "complete outage" perspective.
ECHO Ping Monitor - internal monitoring of VPN connection.

MXT and PINGDOM are okay, but there notifications are a little hit and miss I'm finding. Started out great though.

 

Nagios user here. Does what we want. Not the easiest to configure but once you get your head around how it works it isn't too bad.

We only use a fraction of its functionality at present, planning to utilise it further in future (such as writing some plugins to better monitor some of our more specialised networked devices).

 

Check out Centerity: http://www.centerity.com/

 

what more do you need other than ping? It tests the entire IP stack, right??

free - nagios
paid - prtg (needs windows host, can monitor *nix)

want a nice gui? prtg.

 

We just moved from OpsView/Nagios to Zabbix. A lot more flexible, although a lot of up front configuration to do. We monitor 4500± VMs as well as all the underlying compute, storage and network resources.