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[Ryan Trinder <tguerilla AT gmail.com>]

If you wanted to get even more granular and report system information, Munin would be a great fit. Custom plugins can be written as well.

Munin uses a client server model. It may be overkill for what you are trying to accomplish, it could also be a lot of great information.

An open instance is here: http://munin.ping.uio.no/ - it does not look like all the nodes are reporting, click a few.

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Niels Dettenbach (Syndicat IT&Internet) <nd AT syndicat.com> wrote:

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...just in addition:

Tobi Oetiker - the developer of RRDtool vs former MRTG - the "main part" of smokeping - wrotes the following about smokeping compared to nagios:

"In fact, if you only want to measure latency (so you don't need a full network monitoring system like Opennms or Nagios) I always recommend smokeping."

This is the best summary about this question/topic from my view as wrong decisions are often in cases to choose the right monitoring solution for the right monitoring scenario.

Smokeping is fine just for graphing performance or latency informations - but monitoring (or even manage) network / service availability is not the target of tools like smokeping or cacti (even if cacti offers such as very "basic" functionality). The major goal of a network monitor is to measure / test services or service constellations if they appear / operate in defined borders / limits (working yes/no, response time windows, service flappings etc.) and alarm the right persons in the right situations if required and give a current view of the maintained state of a network topology - means what is(nt) going where and why (not).

If you just still feel faced to scalability borders with smokeping this is another pro for a out of the box highly scalable and intelligent network monitoring tool like nagios or others. Why try to solve any problems if you still have the choice to use a solution not limited such wise?

Setting up nagios is not more difficult as setting up smokeping - if you use ready to run appliances this is much easier.

Just my two cents...


best regards,


Niels.


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Niels Dettenbach
Syndicat IT&Internet
http://www.syndicat.com
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