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On Monday 27 June 2011 17:33:45 Mick did opine thusly: |
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> On Monday 27 Jun 2011 08:45:06 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: |
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> > thanks to all for your suggestion. |
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> > Still not sure where to turn ... |
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> > Stefan |
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> We can't know which one may best match your |
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> needs/expectations/preferences. You can spend some time looking at |
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> their documentation to get an understanding of how difficult it may |
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> be to configure them and then play with their online demos to |
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> experience the touch & feel of each. |
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> Then install the one that best matches your requirements and if your |
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> don't like it enough install the second best and so on. If you are |
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> prepared to get your hands dirty you can somewhat customise the |
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> look and feel (e.g. using CSS), but the monitoring engine is what |
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> will provide you with the necessary functionality. |
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> Personally, I ended up using Nagios because at the time it had a |
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> load of plugins that others did not. Once I spent a lot of time |
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> installing graphing engines and configuring it, I had invested too |
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> much time to ditch it and try something different. |
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> Thankfully, you can start afresh your quest and evaluate how each of |
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> these tools meets your requirements. |
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We're going through the same research nightmare. Our conclusions: |
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1. Nothing out there just does everything a large network would really |
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want. |
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2. Some projects have very stable code but not much plugins, others |
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have lots of plugins but the dev model leads to unstable code |
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3. Monitoring is NOT off the shelf, it is highly bespoke |
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4. Regardless of what you choose you will go through X effort to get |
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it going and Y effort to get it to do what you want. The value is Y is |
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amazingly similar regardless of the project (given that the starting |
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code is at least somewhat mature). |
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iow, your comments are right on the money, that is indeed how to do |
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it. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |