Re: [Nolug] Second question.

We're using the agents on Linux, AIX, and Windows. Netware uses the
mrtg.nlm module but I haven't built a Zabbix template for it yet. No
negative impact from the agent so far. I haven't looked into monitoring
switches/routers yet, but plan to.

I've spent years looking at different agent-less systems that collect data
using ssh, snmp, or various other scripts. And I think being agentless is
Zenoss's claim to fame. In the end I think you're going to get the best
performance and accuracy using an agent. It's just a pain to setup
initally haha... we're monitoring about 120 servers with Zabbix now.

ray

On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Brad Bendily wrote:

> Are you guys using the agents on the servers? Any negative impact from that?
> How does the speed of the checks seem to be using the agent vs ssh?
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:51 AM, -ray <ray@ops.selu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I'll second the zabbix recommendation.  I looked at zenoss, hyperic,
>> opennms, and nagios.  Zenoss and Hyperic were too commercial.  OpenNMS
>> seemed overly complicated.  Nagios would've been my 2nd choice, but Zabbix
>> seemed to be a more well rounded solution.
>>
>> ray
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Petri Laihonen wrote:
>>
>>> I ended up setting up zabbix (zabbix.com) because it was easiest to setup
>>> in
>>> multi platform environment. It has its own agents for most imaginable
>>> platforms.
>>>
>>> P
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Jerry Wilborn
>>> <jerrywilborn@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'll throw a third option out: http://www.zenoss.com/
>>>>
>>>> Most of these systems will not perform well if you're looking to monitor
>>>> thousands of (or more) nodes.  I've got a few PHP utilities I've written
>>>> to
>>>> do this if you find the need to integrate external tools.
>>>>  <http://www.zenoss.com/>
>>>> Jerry Wilborn
>>>> jerrywilborn@gmail.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Shane Russo
>>>> <russo.shane@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Nagios or Open NMS. Looking into both. I have semi-setup Nagios before
>>>>> but
>>>>> never got it fully functional.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Shane Russo
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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