Server monitoring and alerting software?

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

This is a duplicate of http://serverfault.com/questions/44/what-tool-do-you-use-to-monitor-your-servers — sleske, May 03 '12 at 07:09

Tomalak · Answer 1 · 2011-01-28T15:37:04.300

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

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answered Nov 09 '08 at 17:47

Tomalak

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 09 '08 at 19:25

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

answered Nov 09 '08 at 19:25

mercutio

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 09 '08 at 19:32

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OpenNMS is quite good, if you have a large number of servers and need to do very comprehensive monitoring.

answered Nov 09 '08 at 19:32

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 08 '11 at 13:38

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For server monitoring without needing to install any software on your server take a look at my company ServerMonitoringHQ.com Server Monitoring

answered Mar 08 '11 at 13:38

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 18 '11 at 17:38

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To monitor the hardware of HP Proliant Servers and HP Blade centers i can recommend Nagios (or Shinken if you want to be avant-garde) together with the plugin check_hpasm.

answered Jun 18 '11 at 17:38

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Nov 09 '08 at 18:00

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

answered Nov 09 '08 at 18:00

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Nov 09 '08 at 19:43

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My company just started using Nagios mainly to keep track of uptime. What are its difficients that you would look for another solution ? Is it scale or lack of monitoring capability ?

answered Nov 09 '08 at 19:43

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Nov 09 '08 at 21:04

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Consider using a service like Alertra (alertra.com) if you don't want to run the monitoring server yourself. We have been using this for about a year and have been very pleased with it.

answered Nov 09 '08 at 21:04

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Nov 12 '08 at 19:00

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We use Zenoss for monitoring our systems. We found it a lot easier to work with then OpenNMS.

answered Nov 12 '08 at 19:00

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score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Sep 22 '10 at 01:52

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We use NAGIOS for everything, and god on a lower level/within a rails application.

I'd be glad to give you more details if you gave us more details about what specifically you're looking for or trying to accomplish.

answered Sep 22 '10 at 01:52

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score 0 · Answer 11 · answered May 06 '11 at 08:32

You could use RHQ (http://rhq-project.org/ ). While it is not too strong on the hardware side, it provides support for many services. Graphing and alerting are available out of the box and suppor for new/other kinds of managed resources can be provided via plugins. RHQ is open source and has just recently released version 4.0 with a nice new GUI. RHQ also offers a command line interface hat allows scripting.

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