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<body>The abuse of sysadmins by the monitor tool is why they get turned off.<br><br>Never ever set alerts for anything except to page the person who wants them turned on. That shit will get shut down fast. Takes about 2 weeks of 24x7 pages.<br><br>Dashboards. That's a solution that works. Alerts go to a dashboard and the color changes for a big, visible across the room banner.<br><br>If the problem exists 24x7, the solution is a 24x7 live support contract.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On February 24, 2021 5:26:33 PM EST, Jeff Hubbs via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I will say that one Nagios environment
at A Previous Employer<sup>TM</sup> made sysadminning hell because
Nagios was implemented by the netops folks who never took into
account what the systems involved actually did. Why yes, my file
server lights up all its cores at 3AM when it runs ClamAV on all
the Samba filespace (>200MiB/s read!) or when it performs a
mksquashfs on same; don't bother me!<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/24/21 4:08 AM, Leam Hall via Ale
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<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:af75dae7-2452-307e-22aa-98956578c07e@gmail.com">Working
on my career skills, and I need to add a monitoring solution. Is
Nagios still the first choice in open source options? I need to
learn server, network, and application monitoring to beef up a
challenge area in my Site Reliability Engineering skill set.
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