CentOS - Feb 2008 - Enterprise-class monitoring system for CentOS and Win2k3 server

Can anyone recommend an enterprise-class monitoring system for both
Linux and Windows servers?  Here are my requirements:

SNMP trap collection, ability to import custom MIBs
isup/isdown monitoring of ports and daemons
Server health monitors (CPU, Disk, Memory, etc)
SLA reporting with nice graphs
Pager/Email/SMS alerts with groups, filters and escalations
Built-in MTBF and MTTR reporting
Robust parent-child relationships between monitors or probes.  For
example, the system must be smart enough to know that if 25 URLs have
gone down all at once, that they belong to an apache process that has
died.  I don't want 25 alerts, I want *one* alert telling me that the
parent apache daemon is down.
Ability to easily create dashboards from various monitors.  We want
this so we can see all components of a website in one place, eg,
apache URL, database server, disk storage, etc.
Attractive, easy to use GUI.  We don't want a homebrew project with
ugly graphs and a web 1.0 GUI.

So far the products I have looked at are:
NimBUS
SolarWinds IP Monitor
WhatsUPGold
GroundWork Open Source
Nagios

And none of them have met all my requirements.  Any suggestions?

On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 11:49:54AM -0600, Sean Carolan
wrote:
> Can anyone recommend an enterprise-class monitoring system for both
> Linux and Windows servers?  Here are my requirements:
> 
> SNMP trap collection, ability to import custom MIBs
> isup/isdown monitoring of ports and daemons
> Server health monitors (CPU, Disk, Memory, etc)
> SLA reporting with nice graphs
> Pager/Email/SMS alerts with groups, filters and escalations
> Built-in MTBF and MTTR reporting
> Robust parent-child relationships between monitors or probes.  For
> example, the system must be smart enough to know that if 25 URLs have
> gone down all at once, that they belong to an apache process that has
> died.  I don't want 25 alerts, I want *one* alert telling me that the
> parent apache daemon is down.
> Ability to easily create dashboards from various monitors.  We want
> this so we can see all components of a website in one place, eg,
> apache URL, database server, disk storage, etc.
> Attractive, easy to use GUI.  We don't want a homebrew project with
> ugly graphs and a web 1.0 GUI.
> 
> So far the products I have looked at are:
> NimBUS
> SolarWinds IP Monitor
> WhatsUPGold
> GroundWork Open Source
> Nagios
You might take a look at OpenNMS and ZenOSS.  I'm not sure if either
could do everything you're asking for out of the box however.

Ray

Quoting Sean Carolan <scarolan at gmail.com>:
> Can anyone recommend an enterprise-class monitoring system for both
> Linux and Windows servers?  Here are my requirements:
>
> SNMP trap collection, ability to import custom MIBs
> isup/isdown monitoring of ports and daemons
> Server health monitors (CPU, Disk, Memory, etc)
> SLA reporting with nice graphs
> Pager/Email/SMS alerts with groups, filters and escalations
> Built-in MTBF and MTTR reporting
> Robust parent-child relationships between monitors or probes.  For
> example, the system must be smart enough to know that if 25 URLs have
> gone down all at once, that they belong to an apache process that has
> died.  I don't want 25 alerts, I want *one* alert telling me that the
> parent apache daemon is down.
> Ability to easily create dashboards from various monitors.  We want
> this so we can see all components of a website in one place, eg,
> apache URL, database server, disk storage, etc.
> Attractive, easy to use GUI.  We don't want a homebrew project with
> ugly graphs and a web 1.0 GUI.
>
> So far the products I have looked at are:
> NimBUS
> SolarWinds IP Monitor
> WhatsUPGold
> GroundWork Open Source
> Nagios
>
> And none of them have met all my requirements.  Any suggestions?
Zabbix http://www.zabbix.com

Sean Carolan wrote:
> 
> Can anyone recommend an enterprise-class monitoring system for both
> Linux and Windows servers?  Here are my requirements:
> 
> SNMP trap collection, ability to import custom MIBs
> isup/isdown monitoring of ports and daemons
> Server health monitors (CPU, Disk, Memory, etc)
> SLA reporting with nice graphs
> Pager/Email/SMS alerts with groups, filters and escalations
> Built-in MTBF and MTTR reporting
> Robust parent-child relationships between monitors or probes.  For
> example, the system must be smart enough to know that if 25 URLs have
> gone down all at once, that they belong to an apache process that has
> died.  I don't want 25 alerts, I want *one* alert telling me that the
> parent apache daemon is down.
> Ability to easily create dashboards from various monitors.  We want
> this so we can see all components of a website in one place, eg,
> apache URL, database server, disk storage, etc.
> Attractive, easy to use GUI.  We don't want a homebrew project with
> ugly graphs and a web 1.0 GUI.
> 
> So far the products I have looked at are:
> NimBUS
> SolarWinds IP Monitor
> WhatsUPGold
> GroundWork Open Source
> Nagios
> 
> And none of them have met all my requirements.  Any suggestions?
What was wrong with IP Monitor?

It seems to have everything you mentioned, plus a SOAP interface for
designing external dashboards.

We use it here and it works well.

-Ross

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Sean Carolan wrote:
> Can anyone recommend an enterprise-class monitoring system for both
> Linux and Windows servers?  Here are my requirements:
> 
> SNMP trap collection, ability to import custom MIBs
> isup/isdown monitoring of ports and daemons
> Server health monitors (CPU, Disk, Memory, etc)
> SLA reporting with nice graphs
> Pager/Email/SMS alerts with groups, filters and escalations
> Built-in MTBF and MTTR reporting
> Robust parent-child relationships between monitors or probes.  For
> example, the system must be smart enough to know that if 25 URLs have
> gone down all at once, that they belong to an apache process that has
> died.  I don't want 25 alerts, I want *one* alert telling me that the
> parent apache daemon is down.
> Ability to easily create dashboards from various monitors.  We want
> this so we can see all components of a website in one place, eg,
> apache URL, database server, disk storage, etc.
> Attractive, easy to use GUI.  We don't want a homebrew project with
> ugly graphs and a web 1.0 GUI.
> 
> So far the products I have looked at are:
> NimBUS
> SolarWinds IP Monitor
> WhatsUPGold
> GroundWork Open Source
> Nagios
> 
> And none of them have met all my requirements.  Any suggestions?
http://www.opennms.org - and they have a yum repo for easy installation 
on Centos.   Expect to do some work setting up relationships, but the 
framework is all there.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com