[ILUG] Nagios & OpenNMS

[Paul O'Connor]

For what it's worth, my current monitoring setup is Nagios 3.2.3 with the
Ninja project bolted on top (
http://www.op5.org/community/plugin-inventory/op5-projects/ninja) with
PNP4Nagios producing graphs from the output of the plugins and Cacti being
used to gather other metrics. The reason I use both is that Nagios is used
for alerting on thresholds, such as high load, disk space, the usual and
Cacti is used to monitor throughput on network switches and graph
application statistics (Apache workers, Tomcat connections...). All this is
hooked up to an automation system so I don't have to add new/changed hosts.

The nice thing about PNP4Nagios is that you get data graphed automatically
so you don't have to duplicate the check in Cacti. That said, if I was
redoing my monitoring, I'd probably drop PNP4nagios, use N2RRD and use Cacti
to display the graphs.

HTH,
Paul

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:38 AM, FRLinux <frlinux at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would also like to point out Shinken, a nagios fork which seems to
> be growing quickly : http://www.shinken-monitoring.org/
>
> I have been doing a fair bit of puppet these days and I recently saw
> that you can execute a set of commands to monitor boxes too, I don't
> know if that is of any interest to you but I thought I'd throw it on
> the table :)
>
> Best of luck with the new job,
> Steph
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