[UPHPU] Server monitoring script

[Lonnie Olson]

On Mar 21, 2008, at 6:11 PM, Velda wrote:
> I hope this isn't terribly off topic.  We're on the hunt for a  
> really great multi-server management & monitoring solution.  Does  
> anyone know of a good open source monitoring script? If not what are  
> you opinions on systems that we could purchase?  We want something  
> that'll monitor nodes + help us track IP usage, version information,  
> average loads, and disk space usage on 100-200 servers.  We've tried  
> alot of things that do some of those items, but can't seem to find  
> one solution that does it all, and with that many servers it would  
> be terribly helpful.

I do not know of any singe system to handle all this.  However I do  
have recommendations for some individual products.

Monitoring:  Nagios  http://nagios.org/
	Extremely flexible, can write plugins to monitor anything (in any  
language).

Reporting:  Cacti  http://cacti.net
	Collects data from many sources (snmp, ssh, files, etc) and shows  
historical graphs of many things.  Examples include network traffic,  
average loads, disk usage, etc.

Tracking:  IPPlan  http://iptrack.sourceforge.net/
	Flexible IP address tracking.  Easy to use, extendible, and full of  
features.

Documentation:  MediaWiki  http://www.mediawiki.org
	wiki's are awesome for maintaing server documentation like hardware,  
serial numbers, switch connections, etc.


--lonnie