[ale] Monitoring Ubuntu Servers

[Jim Kinney]

Zenoss is kindof nagios with autoconfig and auto discovery on steroids.
On May 14, 2011 10:48 AM, "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at water.com> wrote:
> I'm curious - what does Zenoss do that Nagios can't do?
>
> There are tons of plugins for Nagios and you can write your own as well.
>
>
> I agree Nagios is probably overkill for two servers. But then again
> knowing Nagios might be a salable skill if you go to a larger
> environment someday.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of The
> Don Lachlan
> Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 1:11 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Monitoring Ubuntu Servers
>
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 09:23:11PM -0400, JD wrote:
>> On 05/13/2011 03:51 PM, Omar Chanouha wrote:
>> > Hello Everyone,
>> >
>> > I have 2 ubuntu servers that I maintain at work. I would like
> some
>> > way to be able to monitor them in order to detect intruders.
>> > Specifically things like CPU usage, RAM usage, HD usage, currently
>> > logged in users, running processes and IP connections. There seems
> to
>> > be a lot of options out there, but I am wondering what the people on
>> > this list use/would recommend because I know many on this list are
>> > seasoned sys admins. Command line tools are just as welcome as GUI
>> > apps, as long as they get the job done.
>>
>> For 2 boxes, it would be hard to justify the effort for Nagios. I'd
> do
>> something really easy like SysUsage. http://sysusage.darold.net/ You
>> could deploy this in under 5 minutes.
>
> I would also advise against Nagios; it's great for large implementations
> but
> the amount of work involved is disproportionate to what you'll get for 2
> boxes.
>
> For small environments, I like Xymon (http://www.xymon.com/). It's
> packaged
> for many distributions, simple to set up, and provides fairly detailed
> system information.
>
> -L
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