Monitoring/supervision tools
Hi folks, We've been using monit (latest version) for a while to provide simple process monitoring, with email alerts, and auto re-start capabilities. However, it appears to be more and more unreliable, and has reached the point where it actually isn't fit for purpose. Specifically, on some email filter servers, I have regular clamd failures, and it is neither detecting them, nor re-starting them, whereas it used to. I've used nagios, but for this simple task, unless it's changed a lot since I last played with it, and become a lot easier to configure, it's a total over-kill. We run gentoo servers, and don't want to mess with the core system, startup mechanisms and task management stuff. Does anyone have any suggestions for a simple tool similar to monit? Cheers, Laurie. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Laurie Brown laurie@brownowl.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------
On 14/08/13 14:50, Laurie Brown wrote:
Does anyone have any suggestions for a simple tool similar to monit?
Googling Monit Alternatives thusly... https://www.google.co.uk/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=monit+alternative... ... produces several interesting links, but seeing as I've never used monit or any of the alternatives, I can't vouch for any of the alternatives. HTH Steve
On 14/08/13 15:51, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
Googling Monit Alternatives thusly...
Yeah, I think Laurie can probably search the web, probably without funding PRISM and tax-dodging ;-) FWIW, we bit the bullet and set up nagios. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/
On 14/08/2013 16:44, MJ Ray wrote:
On 14/08/13 15:51, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
Googling Monit Alternatives thusly...
Yeah, I think Laurie can probably search the web, probably without funding PRISM and tax-dodging ;-)
Yeah! I'm not ungrateful for the link by any means, but I was looking for some kind of recommendation, really.
FWIW, we bit the bullet and set up nagios.
Which that is. We did that about, oh, 2 years ago, and stuck with monit despite its shortcomings and relatively poor documentation. Now I see that a lot has been done with Nagois, with some good config tools around, and some large Corps have taken it up (I see contract work now and again) so I'll take a look again. Thanks. Cheers, Laurie. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Laurie Brown laurie@brownowl.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:08:04 +0100, laurie@brownowl.com said:
a lot has been done with Nagois, with some good config tools
Loz, we use Nagios and manage it with http://www.nagiosql.org/. There's a learning curve, but you can do worse... -- "You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you."
Another vote for just using Nagios here. Oh and an antivote for Hyperic, just don't :-)
Nagios +1 Hyperic not worth the Java overhead real memory hog. Nice idea but Nagios can do it just as well. Learn how to write scripts and you can do some very very cool stuff with nagios. I got it to monitor Domain Name Expiration using a custom whois script. On 17 August 2013 09:00, Wayne Stallwood <ALUGlist@digimatic.co.uk> wrote:
Another vote for just using Nagios here.
Oh and an antivote for Hyperic, just don't :-)
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