XMind

Monitoring 2.0

1. Key features for monitoring

   1. Flexible

   2. Zero-Conf

   3. Cross Plattform

   4. Uses standards

2. Products

   1. collectd

      1. Description

         collectd gathers statistics about the system it is running on and stores this information. Those statistics can then be used to find current performance bottlenecks (i.e. performance analysis) and predict future system load (i.e. capacity planning)

      2. License: GPLv2

      3. Implementation: C

      4. Homepage

      5. Maturity Level

         1. v4: stable

         2. v5: some problems

      6. use SSC Serv for Win32/64

   2. rrdtool

      1. Description

         It is pretty easy to gather status information from all sorts of things, ranging from the temperature in your office to the number of octets which have passed through the FDDI interface of your router. But it is not so trivial to store this data in a efficient and systematic manner. This is where RRDtool kicks in. It lets you log and analyze the data you gather from all kinds of data-sources (DS). The data analysis part of RRDtool is based on the ability to quickly generate graphical representations of the data values collected over a definable time period.

      2. License: GPLv2

      3. Implementation: C

      4. Homepage

      5. Maturity Level

         1. v1.4.5 - stable

   3. n2rrd

      1. Description

         Nagios to  RRD = N2RRD, is a small perl script, which analyzes perf-data string for one or more name=value pairs and creates/updates RRA (Round Robin Archives). The archive can later be viewed by any RRD database graph front end e.g. rrd2graph

      2. License: GPLv2

      3. Implementation: Perl

      4. Homepage

      5. Maturity Level

         1. v1.4.4 - stable

         2. -current version needed

   4. nagios

      1. Description

         Achieve instant awareness of IT infrastructure problems, so downtime doesn't adversely affect your business. Nagios offers complete monitoring and alerting for servers, switches, applications, and services. With Nagios you can: • Monitor your entire IT infrastructure • Spot problems before they occur • Know immediately when problems arise • Share availability data with stakeholders • Detect security breaches • Plan and budget for IT upgrades • Reduce downtime and business losses

      2. License: GPLv2

      3. Implementation: C / Perl

      4. Homepage

      5. Maturity Level

         1. v3.3.1 - stable

3. Recipe

   1. Build rpm packages

      1. We have them :o)

   2. Build distributable configs (collectd)

      1. Base configuration

      2. Environment configuration

      3. Service Configuration

   3. Check data on central collectors