Charts and Graphs and Nagios Oh My!

[Demetri Mouratis]

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Matthew Joyce wrote:

> We use Cacti, on the Nagios machine, but in isolation, though I
> understand this needn't be the case.
> Cacti is nice, but imo, a bugger to make do what you want unless you're
> prepared to invest significant time/coffee.
>
> It's one of those products that if you spend a couple of days on you can
> get the hang of it, but then you stop because it works and the next time
> you look at it you're a noob again.
>
>

I'll chime in here with a recommendation for Ganglia, 
http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/.  I run both Ganglia and Cacti for similar 
purposes but pointed at different devices.  As a bit of a "new school" 
guy, I don't particularly like SNMP monitoring my linux hosts.  Instead, 
Ganglia supplies a thin client that is multicast based along with the 
ability to create a monitoring hierarchy that I really like.  Nagios and 
Ganglia have been installed promptly in every environment I've worked and 
and the two have covered all my requirements for years.

-D

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