Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which network monitoring?
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:32:08
Message-Id: 201104042230.50428.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Which network monitoring? by James
1 On Monday 04 April 2011 14:44:37 James wrote:
2 > Pandu Poluan <pandu <at> poluan.info> writes:
3 > > Can you recommend a suitable monitoring system for Gentoo?
4 >
5 > www.JFFNMS.org
6 >
7 > "Being written in PHP, JFFNMS can be customized to suit
8 > different pieces of equipment. Basically if the device
9 > has something interesting to monitor via SNMP either a
10 > state (up/down) or a value, JFFNMS can be made to monitor it."
11 >
12 > It's very flexible and lightweight. Under fresh new development.
13 > Really cool for SNMP, routers, managed switches, servers
14 > ups, and "unique" devices. etc etc. Syslog monitoring too.
15 > Easy to extend to new or unique devices (php).
16 >
17 > There should be an updated ebuild coming out any day
18 > (thanks titan9fold)!
19 >
20 > Postgresql 9 support real soon....
21 >
22 >
23 > hth,
24 > James
25
26 Personally, I opted for Nagios because back then there weren't (m)any other
27 applications with such a high number of plugins that could monitor as much as
28 Nagios does. These days there more options to investigate and find what suits
29 you best:
30
31 http://www.learncomputer.com/open-source-network-tools/
32 --
33 Regards,
34 Mick

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