help with server monitoring software

[bountyhunterxl]

greetings people!

i need help in looking for server monitoring software. is there any specific one that you guys use or can recommend (and more importantly, are they free?)? the boxes i need to monitor are linux webservers and database servers running pgsql. i've tried searching the archives but the only post i found that was related to this didnt get any replies.

i hope you guys can help me out.

 

[Sunner]

You can try Nagios.
The setup isn't the smoothest ride out there, but I'ev seen worse

There's also BigBrother which I haven't used in ages, don't know how it is these days.

And there are probably tons more.

 

[Hoober]

We run Nagios to monitor our network. It takes care of the servers and a number of other things.

 

[Need4Speed]

rrd tool and some handy scripts

 

[cmetz]

Depends on what "monitoring" means, but Nagios has a lot of capability.

 

[bountyhunterxl]

Thanks for the info guys! So far, these seem to be shaping up to be the types i am looking for. Many thanks!

 

[wallsfd949]

We use HP OpenView. The client runs on many platforms (Sun, Linux, XP, etc). Very configurable, very cusomizable. From the client side, I can get everything from hard disk errors, memory errors, database errors, etc.

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: wallsfd949
We use HP OpenView. The client runs on many platforms (Sun, Linux, XP, etc). Very configurable, very cusomizable. From the client side, I can get everything from hard disk errors, memory errors, database errors, etc.

And very very expensive.
An installation at our relatively small site would cost us ~180.000$.

 

[Nothinman]

We use HP OpenView. The client runs on many platforms (Sun, Linux, XP, etc). Very configurable, very cusomizable. From the client side, I can get everything from hard disk errors, memory errors, database errors, etc.

You can get all of that with Nagios too since it can run anything you want as a plugin, all you need to do is figure out how to get the information. There may be plugins to do some of those things already, I havn't looked at Nagios in a while.