hi, I have a dedicated server with several services running: ssh, ftp, httpd (with several sites andactive domains), the mail server (dovecot, postfix), dns. I'd like to monitor all of these services in a graphical, easy, setting of thresholds and alerts via email. I would also like that if a customer wanted to see the graphs I could create codes read-only. there is one or more software that are right for me? what advice can you give me? thanks in advance greetings
On 10/18/2013 02:49 PM, Paolo De Michele wrote:> hi, > > I have a dedicated server with several services running: ssh, ftp, httpd > (with several sites andactive domains), the mail server (dovecot, > postfix), dns. > > I'd like to monitor all of these services in a graphical, easy, setting > of thresholds and alerts via email.The epel repo has fairly recent zabbix20 RPMs. Zabbix' web GUI can produce nice graphs that can even be modified on the fly. I don't know though if Zabbix is overkill for monitoring a single host ... -dirk
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Paolo De Michele <paolo at paolodemichele.it>wrote:> hi, > > I have a dedicated server with several services running: ssh, ftp, httpd > (with several sites andactive domains), the mail server (dovecot, > postfix), dns. > > I'd like to monitor all of these services in a graphical, easy, setting > of thresholds and alerts via email. > I would also like that if a customer wanted to see the graphs I could > create codes read-only. >Cacti can do the graphs and individual (customer) logins. But not alerts, so you either need to find a solution that integrates both alerts and graphs in one or have two separate monitoring software running. We've had a few mailing list threads on this topic in the past. http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2013-March/133383.html http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2013-October/137352.html> > there is one or more software that are right for me? >Nagios for alerts/pages. Cacti for trend graphs. And there's PNP4Nagios which is an add-on for graphing.> what advice can you give me? > thanks in advance > > greetings > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //
-------------------------------------------- On Fri, 10/18/13, Paolo De Michele <paolo at paolodemichele.it> wrote: >Subject: [CentOS] - monitoring software >To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> >Date: Friday, October 18, 2013, 5:49 AM > >hi, > >I have a dedicated server with several services running: >ssh, ftp, httpd >(with several sites andactive domains), the mail server >(dovecot, >postfix), dns. > You could grab this Icinga VM (nagios, basically): https://www.icinga.org/about/virtual-appliance/ If life gives you lemons, keep them-- because hey.. free lemons. "~heart~ Sticker" fixer: http://microflush.org/stuff/stickers/heartFix.html
On 10/18/2013 6:49 AM, Paolo De Michele wrote:> I have a dedicated server with several services running: ssh, ftp, httpd > (with several sites andactive domains), the mail server (dovecot, > postfix), dns. > > I'd like to monitor all of these services in a graphical, easy, setting > of thresholds and alerts via email. > I would also like that if a customer wanted to see the graphs I could > create codes read-only. > > there is one or more software that are right for me? > what advice can you give me? > thanks in advanceExcept for your caveat of easy I would highly recommend Nagios. It's easy to use once set up, but a bit of command line work is required to configure (which I consider easy but understand not everyone does). It will certainly do all the other things you want and then some. Just my opinion... -- Steve Lindemann, MSIS __ Network Administrator //\\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Marmot Library Network \\// against HTML/RTF email, +1.970.242.3331 x116 //\\ vCards & M$ attachments http://www.marmot.org
On 10/18/2013 5:49 AM, Paolo De Michele wrote:> I have a dedicated server with several services running: ssh, ftp, httpd > (with several sites andactive domains), the mail server (dovecot, > postfix), dns. > > I'd like to monitor all of these services in a graphical, easy, setting > of thresholds and alerts via email. > I would also like that if a customer wanted to see the graphs I could > create codes read-only.to echo whats already been said, and perhaps clarify... Nagios is the classic alert package. while its usually run on a dedicated server and monitors a bunch of other servers, it certainly can be used on a single system. But, Graphing in Nagios is a bit of a pain. Cacti is a excellent graphing package, same thing, its usually run on a central server that monitors lots of stuff on other servers, it can be run on the same machine. however, setting up alerts in Cacti is difficult. You may find older references to 'mrtg', well, mrtg was rewritten as rrdtool, and rrdtool is the basis of Cacti. both of these systems have web based displays, and use 'agent' based data collection. Its not unusual to use both at once for their respective strong points. with any of these systems, you typically have a line in the agent script for each thing you want to monitor on a given host. utility scripts such as check_postgresql.pl let you get extensive data out of postgres databases -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast
On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 14:49 +0200, Paolo De Michele wrote:> hi, > > I have a dedicated server with several services running: ssh, ftp, httpd > (with several sites andactive domains), the mail server (dovecot, > postfix), dns. > > I'd like to monitor all of these services in a graphical, easy, setting > of thresholds and alerts via email. > I would also like that if a customer wanted to see the graphs I could > create codes read-only. >Hello, We use 'Xymon' (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/) http://www.xymon.com/ will show you what it looks like. It will monitor what you want, and produce graphs (see the 'trends' column). I gather it does alerts, but we do not use them ourselves. As you can see it has a graphical frontend. We use it to monitor our Centos and RHEL servers, and some Debian and Fedora devices. John. -- ---------------------------------------------------- John Horne Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 Plymouth University, UK Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001