[rt-users] Net monitoring solution

[Les Mikesell]

Viktor wrote:

> I am looking for a net monitoring solution, to monitor some hosts load averages, memory consumption, I/O perfomance, mails received etc.
> Have some experience with rt, but not RTIR/RTFM (what are they? some 'shells' around RT or what?)
> So far I have installed nagios but alas - it seems it doesn't provide convenient graphs on 'normal' activity, it does provide them on outages and failures...
> 
> I am a capable Perl/PHP engeneer, familiar with rrdtool. I think nagios + n2rrd + rrdtool + rt(rtir?) is what I am looking for. Other options include some SNMP daemon with cacti or oreon, again coupled with rt.
> 
> Unfortunately I am not familiar with SNMP, so I don't know what direction to dig at. Could anyone please share his experience on this matter? I think that's quite a common task to monitor hosts activity, to plot these graphs and receive fault notifications.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated thankfully.


Generally you just enable snmp on the hosts and run a polling/monitor 
package to collect and plot the results.  Cacti is pretty easy to set 
up, but if you have enough hosts to make auto-discovery worth the effort 
of a more complex package you might like opennms:  http://www.opennms.org.

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