[TriLUG] "Light" monitoring

[Jim Ray]

We use Kaseya. I have heard that SpiceWorks is good alternative as well.

Regards,

Jim Ray, President
Neuse River Networks
2 Davis Drive, PO Box 13169
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
919-838-1672 x100
www.NeuseRiverNetworks.com


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From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Brian McCullough
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 11:13 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: [TriLUG] "Light" monitoring

I have been working on how to ask this question, but I guess I'll go ahead anyway.


I have a system that seems to be becoming more fragile, and I would like to monitor it, and send myself e-mail messages when it needs attention.


I know about Nagios, but it seems to add more load to the target system than I would like, with it's polling several times per second, depending on what services it is monitoring.

I also wondered about something like MRTG, and read the graphs remotely.
I don't know whether I can set up alarms that way, though.

I can also do something like "ping -c 3" from an outside site.


Primarily, to begin with, I am interested in load levels and web server "aliveness" over time, with the ability to alarm ( via e-mail and possibly SMS ) when some threshold ( say high load over three minutes ) is passed.

I have had the web server apparently just go away two or three times this month, and have seen some very high "top" values at more than one point. 

Side question -- since Top and friends only show one value, what is it saying about a multi-cpu system?



Any suggestions, or roll my own?  I'm sure that that is not the answer; there have to be multiple tools to help me with this problem.


Thanks,
Brian

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