[ale] Hardware monitoring

[Christopher Fowler]

On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 21:55 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > NetCool does this right?  Does it install an agent on each server?
> 
> Yes, Netcool does this, and Yes it involves a local agent.  

Then using an NMS like Netcool or HPOV would be what is required.

I'm not trying to rain on anyone's parade but if the monitoring involves
over 1000 servers I would _not_ resort to any method that required
polling.  Having an SNMP agent on each server that can report back to a
central NMS is the only way to go.

If you need to know about temp on each server you'll need at max to pool
1000 servers every 5 minutes.  That is sub optimal.  You need an agent
on each system that can monitor the temp every 10s and report back to
you when a threshold has been reached.

Unless there is an OSS tool that can meet these requirements it appears
you'll need to spend some $$$.


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