[olug] Open source monitoring system?

Carl Lundstedt clundst at unlserve.unl.edu
Thu Apr 16 16:50:23 UTC 2009


We use nagios to monitor our HPC cluster.  That's about ~200 workers,
and 20+ service machines.  The 'tactical' page says 236 hosts with 2553
service checks.  We don't have any windows machines in that group
though.

Carl Lundstedt
UNL


On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 11:38 -0500, Tony Reinke wrote:
> I have used Nagios for small deployments (5-20 servers) but I am
> wondering how it would work in a larger environment (5,000 servers,
> mixed *nix and Windows).  Anyone used it on such a scale?  What are the
> recommendations for such a monitoring task?
> 
> Tony Reinke
> 
> T. J. Brumfield wrote:
> > I originally voted for Nagios (I also used it in the NetSaint days,
> > which Harrahs used globally actually) and Zabbix.  Everyone is making
> > a case for how flexible Nagios is, which it is.  However, the reason I
> > use Zabbix today is because it is very simple to setup.  It even has
> > auto-discovery.
> >
> > -- T. J.
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