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Internal Monitoring System

PacketVMPacketVM Member, Host Rep
edited December 2012 in Help

Hello,

I'm wanting an internal monitoring system, but I'm not sure what the best way to do it is. PremiumVM has just got its first Dedicated Server client and wants to make a good first impressions.

What I want to do is set up a monitoring system and add all Dedicated Server clients to it, so that if a service goes down we get notified immediately. I've looked at nagios but I'm not sure if it's the best way to go, and how the best way to run it is.

Hopefully you can help me on this one!

Thank you.

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  • PhilNDPhilND Member

    Use nagios, or the spin off Icinga. It's awesome.

  • PacketVMPacketVM Member, Host Rep

    @PhilND said: Use nagios, or the spin off Icinga. It's awesome.

    Nagios seems good then.

    How would you guys configure it? I mean, I want to have my clients Dedicated Servers running off it so if anything happens, I'm notified. Just run it off a VPS?

  • PhilNDPhilND Member

    We're running it off an Amazon EC2 instance, like all our critical infastructure, we've got it so it feeds into our internal system (custom built) system, it then opens a ticket so that we can look into it. We have it monitoring SSH, HTTP, and ICMP as standard, depending on the client we'll configure it a different way.

    Phil

  • PacketVMPacketVM Member, Host Rep

    This is where the thank button comes in handy, so thanks! :)

  • PhilNDPhilND Member

    Oh and also, you can make it email (that's included by default) we just like to keep a record in our system so we can search for it later.

  • RaymiiRaymii Member

    Nagios is the way to go IMHO. This book has helped me a lot, but the site and man pages are a good resource too: http://www.packtpub.com/learning-nagios-30/book

  • LV_MattLV_Matt Member

    Hello,

    We use a combination of both Nagios and Cacti (for the graphs).

  • PacketVMPacketVM Member, Host Rep

    Managed to get nagios installed :) Configuring it now.

    Any idea how to add more hosts? I.e. it's got local host but how do I add more servers?

  • AlexBarakovAlexBarakov Patron Provider, Veteran

    Since when is nagios paid?
    http://nagios.com/products/nagiosxi/pricing/buynow

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  • PatrickPatrick Member
    edited December 2012

    @Alex_LiquidHost said: Since when is nagios paid?

    http://nagios.com/products/nagiosxi/pricing/buynow

    That's XI, the core is still free.
    http://nagios.com/products

  • PacketVMPacketVM Member, Host Rep

    @Patrick said: That's XI, the core is still free.

    http://nagios.com/products

    As above.

    @dominicl said: Any idea how to add more hosts? I.e. it's got local host but how do I add more servers?

  • IshaqIshaq Member

    Nagios for sure.

  • PacketVMPacketVM Member, Host Rep
    edited December 2012

    Thanks. Somebody: Any idea how to add more hosts? I.e. it's got localhost but how do I add more servers?

  • PhilNDPhilND Member

    Google for it.

  • twaintwain Member

    Command line config files dominicl. Check the docs. You could use opsview community instead, comes w/ nagios and easier to configure

  • plueschopathplueschopath Member

    Zabbix

  • AnthonySmithAnthonySmith Member, Patron Provider

    man

  • jarjar Patron Provider, Top Host, Veteran

    @Raymii Thanks for that book suggestion. Nagios really is a bit complicated for someone with no experience with it at all. That's my experience anyway, because I like to be able to pick things up and run with them on my instincts rather than reading a whole lot (exception for things like openvz wiki). I'm gonna have to find time to read that book anyway.

  • mpkossenmpkossen Member

    @dominicl said: Thanks. Somebody: Any idea how to add more hosts? I.e. it's got localhost but how do I add more servers?

    Pretty easy. On Ubuntu, go to /etc/nagios3/conf.d and look for a configuration file that has 'define host{' in it. It may serve as a basic example for you. You can just copy it, modify it and 'service nagios3 reload' to get it listed.

    If your client is using a different OS, I just figure the path is the same, but it may differ.

    If you have any questions, feel free to PM me :)

  • BreezehostBreezehost Member

    Nagios is one of the best monitoring tool. :)

  • gbshousegbshouse Member, Host Rep

    You can try ScaleXtreme

  • RaymiiRaymii Member

    @mpkossen said: @dominicl said: Thanks. Somebody: Any idea how to add more hosts? I.e. it's got localhost but how do I add more servers?

    If you want to only check the host, then you can use the check_host_alive check, if you want to monitor more things (like disk/cpu/ram usage and custom checks) you might want to go and install NRPE on that host and check things via NRPE. Don't forget to setup firewalling so that only allowed IP's can talk to 5666 (nrpe standard port).

    And @dominicl you should really read the book I suggested. You can also get it as an ebook via amazon or that other shop somewhere in that bay on a ship. If you want to configure things via a GUI, check out Centreon.

    This distro: http://www.fullyautomatednagios.org/ has it all set up including Nagios, Centreon, Nagiosgrapher and NagVIS.

  • PacketVMPacketVM Member, Host Rep

    Managed to do it now, but thanks anyway :)

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