Re: Monitoring tools (was: Re: F____la H___x)

From: Dave Hinz (davehinz_at_spamcop.net)
Date: 11/20/03 

Date: 20 Nov 2003 20:08:33 GMT

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:55:07 +0100, Gwalarn <spam-f$$$$$@fuckyou.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to use nagios one day but it was such a mess that I install another
> "management" tool wich is OPENNMS. It was easier for me.
> I am french and I am not a linux expert.

We're using it on our Solaris boxes; much of the initial setup is getting
a system with a coherent development environment and all of the dependancies
in place. Some systems are closer to ready than others; a raw Solaris
box takes a bunch of work to get it ready with all of the various
components, as I recall.

> And I have already a lot of work (I am alone for the network and all the
> computer of the society) so it's not easy for me to read too much
> documentation before using a tool.

What kind of things are you trying to monitor? Take a look at the
demo (live) at http://bb4.com and see if that does it? Out of the box,
it does a lot of things with very, very little tweaking (one bb-hosts file
can get you most of the way there), and you can add external scripts
as you go, if you want. Notifications are very intuitive to set up
as well; if you want everything to go to a certain group, it works
out of the box; if you want to customize hours & recipient groups by test,
it gets into a regexp thing that can get a bit intimidating at first.

> So I need stuff which are 1 - Well documented 2 - without hundred of conf
> files to edit
> And nagios documentation was not good because I do not understand it.

Take a look at bb4.com - maybe it's more like what you're after. Your
English skills are obviously good, so that shouldn't be a barrier, and
there is a very active users mailing list with quite helpful folks,
several of whom are French if that helps you.
 
> I think I will wait for the next release to try it again.
> And maybe you will help me ;)

I'm more comfortable with bb, and yes, I'd be happy to answer questions
to get you going. My email address does work.

> OPENNMS was quite fine but one day it stop working and I am not able to fix
> it. I'm not enough good in Linux ;( but I work on it ;)

Learn it by doing it; I don't know of a better way. Asking coherent
questions is most of the learning process, so you'll do fine.

Dave Hinz

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