Monitoring Application of the Year

jeremy · 01-15-2008, 10:12 AM

"single system monitoring" were not the intended target of this poll. Even cacti and ntop are a stretch, when you compare them to the other products listed.

--jeremy

mareko · 01-15-2008, 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by {BBI}Nexus{BBI}

Where's Gkrellm?

+1 request for Gkrellm

unSpawn · 01-15-2008, 12:12 PM

Monit does monitor remote services.

Nishtya · 01-15-2008, 12:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jeremy

"single system monitoring" were not the intended target of this poll. Even cacti and ntop are a stretch, when you compare them to the other products listed.

Thanks for the clarification. Perhaps next year we might have such a category if enough folks are interested?

gregtrounson · 01-16-2008, 06:27 PM

I wasn't going to vote in this one as I don't really use monitoring programs, but then someone mentioned gkrellm and I realised that I use it all the time.

But alas I still can't vote in this one because gkrellm isn't on the list

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 01-16-2008, 07:32 PM

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Originally Posted by jeremy

"single system monitoring" were not the intended target of this poll...

--jeremy

Gkrellm does monitor multiple systems. All they need to have is the gkrellm-server package installed and running.

jantman · 01-27-2008, 01:01 AM

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Originally Posted by vermaden

cacti missed: http://cacti.net

While I use Cacti, I consider it to be more for historical analysis/trending rather than monitoring.

As to ipfraf, ntop, etc.... I think there needs to be clarification on what we mean by "monitoring". Seeing Nagios, GroundWork, Zenoss, etc. I assume that we're talking about systems that check the "health" of a particular host, service, etc. and take some action (email alert, open a ticket, etc.) based on given thresholds.

Takla · 02-01-2008, 05:47 AM

I like etherape, mostly for the pretty colours and it has ape in the name which makes me think of monkeys. Also like htop because it's useful, and I like conky on fluxbox. On Xfce I like the simple panel applet System Load Monitor. Mostly the gf does all the monitoring my life can handle.

radu · 02-15-2008, 08:12 AM

http://argus.tcp4me.com/

Great piece of software capable of monitoring multiple systems. Simple and stable. Where stable is extremely important for a monitoring tool.

Regards,
Radu

slerena · 05-13-2008, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by jeremy

A new poll this year.

--jeremy

Could be nice to add Pandora FMS to that list, an Opensource Project (under GPL2). It's a nice monitoring software, try it.

More information about Pandora on its website at http://pandora.sourceforge.net

dataprotection · 09-23-2008, 04:37 AM

Where is PandoraFMS?
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