On 2017-05-10 11:45 AM, Tim Mooney wrote:
In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NMS software for snmp-based
network...:
What NMSes are you using, any that will run in OI?
OI has packages for Zabbix, which is what I would call a traditional
monitoring solution. It can do both server-initiated monitors (polling)
and client-initiated monitors. I don't know if the OI one is compiled
with SNMP support (that's optional), but you could find out quickly by
installing the package and then starting the service and looking in the
log file.
When I was evaluating monitoring solutions for work 4 years ago, I
actually ended up choosing Zabbix, and we've been using it ever since.
There were a few reasons why I chose it (at the time) over things like
Nagios, Xenoss Core, or Munin:
- Our Windows admins didn't have to edit Linux-based config files to set
up new probes (items) or alerts (triggers) -- that can all be done
through the web-based GUI.
- It has one supported and relatively decent web interface (rather than
10 different, partially implemented ones -- I'm looking at you, Nagios)
- It has very good support for Windows (in addition to Linux & UNIX)
- The documentation was very good and the main docs covered everything
I needed to do -- I didn't have to hunt through documentation scattered
everywhere.
- Its templates were fairly powerful and mostly easy to use, so it was
easy to set up e.g. a "base linux system in Datacenter X" template
and apply it widely and get all the same basic probes, alerts, etc.
- Its API is easy to use and pretty complete.
One thing to keep in mind -- monitoring has changed a *lot* in the last
four years. Packages like graphite had only rudimentary support for
alerting when I was doing my search 4 years ago. Prometheus barely
existed 4 years ago.
Tim
I second what Tim says. I don't run Zabbix on OI, but I do run it in a
linux VM and it has been working great.
Another bonus is Zabbix is not "open core", with an "enterprise"
version. You get the same package, whether you are buying support or not.
Geoff
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