RHEL 6 Monitoring

stevenjwilliams83 · 08-14-2013, 09:34 AM

What are people using to monitor the performance and health on their Red Hat server environments? We are new to RHEL and current have 2 servers.

szboardstretcher · 08-14-2013, 09:44 AM

stevenjwilliams83 · 08-14-2013, 09:46 AM

I was looking for more like what applications within the OS or outside the OS. I use tools like Solarwinds for networking, SCOM for windows, etc, etc.

Does RHEL have some type of application that it likes specifically?

szboardstretcher · 08-14-2013, 10:01 AM

SNMP is primarily what I use on RHEL/Centos servers in my network. From there, I can use any number of tools to watch the performance,..

Observium, Nagios, Zenoss, Zabbix,..

If you mean "What programs are there locally to determine the health of the server," then:

top
(the /proc/ directory)
df -h
free -m
perf top

And hundreds, and hundreds of more examples that are completely searchable on the internet if you are interested.

TB0ne · 08-14-2013, 10:02 AM

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Originally Posted by stevenjwilliams83

I was looking for more like what applications within the OS or outside the OS. I use tools like Solarwinds for networking, SCOM for windows, etc, etc.

Does RHEL have some type of application that it likes specifically?

No, and most enterprise type monitoring applications don't really care what they monitor. Check into Zabbix or Nagios...both are widely used, and free, but I think Nagios has a more extensive plug-in set. It can also monitor switches/routers, and pretty much ANYTHING that reports back with SNMP...and you can even write your own plugins to monitor anything you'd like.