[Ubuntu-ma] Monitoring linux

[mezgani ali]

Salam,

Monitoring many servers is one of the most sensitive tasks that ever
administrator must do, well it always depends on the need and the scale of
machine to monitor. It is always good idea to keep a database with many
snapshots of states of machines.

Personally, i used nagios, ntop, cacti or maybe munin for supervision and
alert, and i set a wiki with all characteristic of machines, addresses,
emplacement, N° series, numer of tel of technical support team, ....

In the fact, i think that a large enterprise must delegate similar job to a
dedicated structure, and free time of administrators to others things,
however there are many good team in Morocco that help to addresses
supervision and monitoring plan for enterprise as like as Native LABS.



On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Nordin Bouchtaoui <bouchtaoui at gmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> 2010/9/14 ISLAM Abou El Ata <kindyroot at gmail.com>
>
> Salam,
>>
>> It depends pretty much on what you're most interested in, here's a simple
>> rule of thumb:
>>
>> - most Interested in monitoring performance >> run "top" or "htop" over
>> SSH.
>>
>
> I'm already familiar with that.
>
>
>> - most interested in monitoring security >> run Snort with e-mail alerts.
>>
>
> For now, this is not needed. It's not for the government with sensitive
> data or something.
>
>
>> - most interested in monitoring traffic >> run javascript based stats and
>> traffic analysis (such as Google Analytics).
>> - most interested in having a global view of your server set and having a
>> dashboard>> see GLPI, Mandriva Pulse, and Zabbix.
>> - most interested in networking >> see Nagios.
>>
>
> I don't want to annoy you but these tools all do the same, it's a matter of
> taste.
> For what I need I think Nagios is enough for me.
>
> But what do you use? Are you administering also several servers? I remember
> Hassan told me he manages hundreds of servers, so I was curious about how
> he's doing that, don't take it personal.
>
>
>> - most interested in something not in the list >> reply back with details.
>>
>> I hope this helps.
>>
>
> Always :)
>
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