[ale] Monitoring (Was "Todays trends")

Wed Oct 9 15:58:17 EDT 2013

It sounds like you have also worked with Zabbix a good bit, too.  My biggest aggravation (maybe you have found a way around it?) is this:
If I add in a new server, apply the Agent based template, etc... it will eventually do the low level discovery and populate in the various filesystems it discovers.
It also has a default trigger defined to alert at 20% free disk space.  Well, this is absolutely useless.  Since it is inherited from a template, you can't edit that value per-server (maybe I want to alert at 10% on /var on one server and 40% on another).  The only thing I have found to do is to disable propagation of those default triggers, wait for filesystem discovery to happen, and manually go and create different triggers on each individual server for each individual filesystem.
Have you found a way around it?  All I seem to get out of forums, etc...is that it is "working as designed"..  surely I can't be the only person who thinks setting single alert threshold for every filesystem on every server monitored is umm...less than optimal.
Allen B.

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Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
The University of Alabama
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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of Erik Mathis [erik at mathists.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 12:22 PM
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Subject: Re: [ale] Monitoring (Was "Todays trends")

+1 zabbix. Zabbix has a steeper learning curve tho. Especially when you want to do complex triggers.

What I really like the most about zabbix is that it will graph anything easily. Also you can monitor anything using (bash, perl, whatever) one liners. No need to create a wrapper scripts. Its also makes setting up relationships or dependencies a snap. It also fully functioning SOAP API. I dont like that it will disable a item if it fails a check.

ALL SA's should know nagios. Like rsync its a big stepping stone.

If you have to use nagios, opsview is a good alternative.

-Erik-

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu<mailto:allen at ua.edu>> wrote:
I'm totally with you on Nagios.  We switched to Zabbix about a year ago, and I couldn't be happier with it.  Best of all - it is also free.
http://www.zabbix.com

Allen B.
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Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
The University of Alabama

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Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 7:33 AM
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Subject: [ale] Monitoring (Was "Todays trends")

On Oct 9, 2013, at 7:45 AM, "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at water.com<mailto:JLightner at water.com>> wrote:

> So the issue wasn't Nagios - it was the folks managing it.
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> Nagios is a great tool and we use it in Production.

I'll bite.  Nobody better to discuss with than the ALE family…

So, I hate Nagios.  Can't express how much I dislike the product, the layout of the alerting, the lack of a comprehensive, easy to see and understand dashboard with easily managed/administered acknowledgements, mobile accessibility, automation, escalation paging… you name it.

Now, before you freak out, I know it's all in there, but I personally find it markedly difficult to find all this stuff in the way Nagios has decided to lay everything out.

Is this just a "me" thing?  Is it because my earliest and most often used monitoring stuff is from a "Big Brother" background?  (BB, Hobbit, Xymon, Foglight, Spotlight)

What's the general landscape of monitoring tools and utilities in use out there?

--Jerald

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