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Re: monitoring toolkit for linux cluster
by pzbagel (Chaplain) on Sep 16, 2003 at 20:24 UTC

    Try Nagios.

    Lo and there was rejoicing
    and beating of drums
    and dancing
    as much painful wheel-revinvention had been averted!

      Seconded. I used it at the previous job and we were most satisfied with it (although the web front end's CGIs being not easily modified compiled C rather than perl could be considered a strike against :).

      Thirded, sort of. This is one of those I know a bloke who knows a bloke whose sister used.. kind of endorsements :-) A sysadmin I used to know used netsaint back in the day and used to rave about it constantly. netsaint then morphed into Nagios (as I recall) and I've heard that it's only got better since it's netsaint days.

      -- vek --
Re: monitoring toolkit for linux cluster (with 'mon')
by markjugg (Curate) on Sep 17, 2003 at 02:30 UTC
    We've been using mon to monitor a rack full of servers for a few years at my web hosting company, and I'm happy with it. We were able to tune it so it pages us for about every important kind of event we care about, without getting paged more than we wanted to. 'Mon' is written in Perl.

    I wasn't aware of Nagios until now.

    Mark