Comments on: Installing an Ubuntu monitoring system with Cacti, Zenoss and Smokeping http://www.arsgeek.com/2007/10/08/installing-an-ubuntu-monitoring-system-with-cacti-zenoss-and-smokeping/ Free your inner geek Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:25:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: mortgage calculator http://www.arsgeek.com/2007/10/08/installing-an-ubuntu-monitoring-system-with-cacti-zenoss-and-smokeping/comment-page-1/#comment-65367 mortgage calculator Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:46:08 +0000 http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=2707#comment-65367 Action resumes tomorrow at Hayward Field, and can be followed on a live webcast provided in partnership with RunnerSpace. Action resumes tomorrow at Hayward Field, and can be followed on a live webcast provided in partnership with RunnerSpace.

]]> By: Josefina E. Wertz http://www.arsgeek.com/2007/10/08/installing-an-ubuntu-monitoring-system-with-cacti-zenoss-and-smokeping/comment-page-1/#comment-61592 Josefina E. Wertz Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:07:57 +0000 http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=2707#comment-61592 I don't like this Linux stuff and can't understand how people use it for personal purposes. I don’t like this Linux stuff and can’t understand how people use it for personal purposes.

]]> By: Walter Bono http://www.arsgeek.com/2007/10/08/installing-an-ubuntu-monitoring-system-with-cacti-zenoss-and-smokeping/comment-page-1/#comment-61169 Walter Bono Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:17:20 +0000 http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=2707#comment-61169 Why do you need to experience all this kind of problems with stupid Linux systems, if you can pay some money and get a very well developed Windows 7 and not have such a lot of head aches. Why do you need to experience all this kind of problems with stupid Linux systems, if you can pay some money and get a very well developed Windows 7 and not have such a lot of head aches.

]]> By: Jimmie http://www.arsgeek.com/2007/10/08/installing-an-ubuntu-monitoring-system-with-cacti-zenoss-and-smokeping/comment-page-1/#comment-60007 Jimmie Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:06:11 +0000 http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=2707#comment-60007 I followed these instructions. Fantastic. Many Thanks! I followed these instructions. Fantastic. Many Thanks!

]]> By: cavtroop http://www.arsgeek.com/2007/10/08/installing-an-ubuntu-monitoring-system-with-cacti-zenoss-and-smokeping/comment-page-1/#comment-34016 cavtroop Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:40:11 +0000 http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=2707#comment-34016 OpenNMS? No, never had much luck. I've got Nagios running now, which was fairly easy to setup, especially for my fairly small environment. OpenNMS? No, never had much luck. I’ve got Nagios running now, which was fairly easy to setup, especially for my fairly small environment.

]]> By: Ubuntu Problem http://www.arsgeek.com/2007/10/08/installing-an-ubuntu-monitoring-system-with-cacti-zenoss-and-smokeping/comment-page-1/#comment-34015 Ubuntu Problem Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:34:56 +0000 http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=2707#comment-34015 @ cavtroop: Any success on the latest stable? I am digging though the endless loops to get it working. We are using Hyperic now. I'm trying to make i working in Vmware before presenting it before my manager. @ cavtroop: Any success on the latest stable? I am digging though the endless loops to get it working.

We are using Hyperic now. I’m trying to make i working in Vmware before presenting it before my manager.

]]> By: Tormoz http://www.arsgeek.com/2007/10/08/installing-an-ubuntu-monitoring-system-with-cacti-zenoss-and-smokeping/comment-page-1/#comment-25979 Tormoz Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:54:49 +0000 http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=2707#comment-25979 Super! Sample design... I really enjoyed your page. Super!
Sample design…
I really enjoyed your page.

]]> By: Zenoss Blog » Zenoss Newsletter - October 2007 http://www.arsgeek.com/2007/10/08/installing-an-ubuntu-monitoring-system-with-cacti-zenoss-and-smokeping/comment-page-1/#comment-25392 Zenoss Blog » Zenoss Newsletter - October 2007 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:16:40 +0000 http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=2707#comment-25392 [...] ArsGeek: Installing an Ubuntu monitoring system with Cacti, Zenoss and Smokeping [...] [...] ArsGeek: Installing an Ubuntu monitoring system with Cacti, Zenoss and Smokeping [...]

]]> By: cavtroop http://www.arsgeek.com/2007/10/08/installing-an-ubuntu-monitoring-system-with-cacti-zenoss-and-smokeping/comment-page-1/#comment-24755 cavtroop Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:14:30 +0000 http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=2707#comment-24755 just a followup. having a HELL of a time getting opennms to install via apt-get. the stable package seems to be completely broken. Unstable seems to install, but Postgresql is giving me hell. Zenoss was a no-brainer to install, but doesn't do all that I need it to. Opennms seems to do what I need it to, but is a bear to install. Still on the fence about Hyperic. just a followup. having a HELL of a time getting opennms to install via apt-get. the stable package seems to be completely broken. Unstable seems to install, but Postgresql is giving me hell.

Zenoss was a no-brainer to install, but doesn’t do all that I need it to. Opennms seems to do what I need it to, but is a bear to install. Still on the fence about Hyperic.

]]> By: David http://www.arsgeek.com/2007/10/08/installing-an-ubuntu-monitoring-system-with-cacti-zenoss-and-smokeping/comment-page-1/#comment-24554 David Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:03:11 +0000 http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=2707#comment-24554 cavtroop, Hyperic's a great product, too. All these products/tools have advantages... that's the great thing about open source, pick the one that works for you. Good luck with your installs... /me sends best wishes to Jonathon's chance of going to Comic Con! cavtroop,

Hyperic’s a great product, too. All these products/tools have advantages… that’s the great thing about open source, pick the one that works for you. Good luck with your installs…

/me sends best wishes to Jonathon’s chance of going to Comic Con!

]]> By: David http://www.arsgeek.com/2007/10/08/installing-an-ubuntu-monitoring-system-with-cacti-zenoss-and-smokeping/comment-page-1/#comment-24553 David Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:02:41 +0000 http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=2707#comment-24553 cavtroop, Hyperic's a great product, too. All these products tools have advantages... the great thing about open source, pick the one that works for you. Good luck with your installs... /me sends best wishes to Jonathon's chance of going to Comic Con! cavtroop,

Hyperic’s a great product, too. All these products tools have advantages… the great thing about open source, pick the one that works for you. Good luck with your installs…

/me sends best wishes to Jonathon’s chance of going to Comic Con!

]]> By: cavtroop http://www.arsgeek.com/2007/10/08/installing-an-ubuntu-monitoring-system-with-cacti-zenoss-and-smokeping/comment-page-1/#comment-24533 cavtroop Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:27:43 +0000 http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=2707#comment-24533 Kamal Interesting that you've mentioned Hyperic - I was/am getting frustrated with Zenoss' windows monitoring and specifically the graphing. Some systems work, some don't, but any way you slice it the documentation is poor. I installed Hyperic about two hours ago, and you are right - very easy to install and get running. The need for client agents is a bit cumbersome, but I'm only monitoring a small branch office, so thats not a big deal. I'm going to run Hyperinc and Zenoss in parallel for a while (along with Cacti, to get the graphing that Zenoss so far doesn't provide me), and I'll report back with a new article on how that goes. David - I tried OpenNMS a while ago, and for reasons that completely escape me, I turned away from it. Perhaps I'll throw it on this box, also, and give it a good three-way test agains Zenoss and Hyperic :) Kamal

Interesting that you’ve mentioned Hyperic – I was/am getting frustrated with Zenoss’ windows monitoring and specifically the graphing. Some systems work, some don’t, but any way you slice it the documentation is poor. I installed Hyperic about two hours ago, and you are right – very easy to install and get running. The need for client agents is a bit cumbersome, but I’m only monitoring a small branch office, so thats not a big deal.

I’m going to run Hyperinc and Zenoss in parallel for a while (along with Cacti, to get the graphing that Zenoss so far doesn’t provide me), and I’ll report back with a new article on how that goes.

David -

I tried OpenNMS a while ago, and for reasons that completely escape me, I turned away from it. Perhaps I’ll throw it on this box, also, and give it a good three-way test agains Zenoss and Hyperic :)

]]> By: Kamal http://www.arsgeek.com/2007/10/08/installing-an-ubuntu-monitoring-system-with-cacti-zenoss-and-smokeping/comment-page-1/#comment-24521 Kamal Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:41:04 +0000 http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=2707#comment-24521 I have unsuccessfully tried installing both cacti and zenoss, I gave up after second step above. Instead I installed Hyperic and GroundworkOpensource. After a week of eval I am sticking with Hyperic. Nothing beats 10 minute install and auto-discovery of all the apps I am running in my production environment (Apache, JBoss, MySQL, postfix and many home grown java processes). On top of that I get all the basic monitoring (like disk space, network, snmp, control actions for controlling above apps, syslog monitoring). All in all in less then half an hour I was monitoring close to 400 services and collecting 1000+ metric data per minute running over 7 RHEL8 servers. After I was satisfied with performance I spent another hour configuring alerting (email and alerting) on critical metric data, put in place couple of escalation scheme for me, my manager and another co-worker. For now Hyperic OSS is doing the job, some day when the company has profit we will see if we can buy the support but for now we are all set. If anyone wants to see how it looks, please drop me a line and I will send some cool snapshots of the systems I am monitoring. I have unsuccessfully tried installing both cacti and zenoss, I gave up after second step above. Instead I installed Hyperic and GroundworkOpensource. After a week of eval I am sticking with Hyperic. Nothing beats 10 minute install and auto-discovery of all the apps I am running in my production environment (Apache, JBoss, MySQL, postfix and many home grown java processes). On top of that I get all the basic monitoring (like disk space, network, snmp, control actions for controlling above apps, syslog monitoring). All in all in less then half an hour I was monitoring close to 400 services and collecting 1000+ metric data per minute running over 7 RHEL8 servers. After I was satisfied with performance I spent another hour configuring alerting (email and alerting) on critical metric data, put in place couple of escalation scheme for me, my manager and another co-worker.

For now Hyperic OSS is doing the job, some day when the company has profit we will see if we can buy the support but for now we are all set.

If anyone wants to see how it looks, please drop me a line and I will send some cool snapshots of the systems I am monitoring.

]]> By: David http://www.arsgeek.com/2007/10/08/installing-an-ubuntu-monitoring-system-with-cacti-zenoss-and-smokeping/comment-page-1/#comment-24505 David Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:36:13 +0000 http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=2707#comment-24505 apt-get install opennms and you get all that ;-)... Actually, I'm one of the maintainers of OpenNMS but I followed your instructions on my Ubuntu VM and it looks like you've documented this complete and will be a nice monitoring solution. Even I think Zenoss is pretty cool. No doubt. But, they really should have packaging... apt-get (or yum for RPMers) install zenoss... that would fix those nasty dependency problems. I meet with a lot of companies that install multiple open source monitoring tools to cover their needs and there are tremendous advantages to doing so... such as rapid deployment and flexible configuration. When it comes time for a common framework, someone ends up writing a front-end to those tools and it begins to get much more difficult to grow and support. just another hacker's $.02 apt-get install opennms and you get all that ;-) … Actually, I’m one of the maintainers of OpenNMS but I followed your instructions on my Ubuntu VM and it looks like you’ve documented this complete and will be a nice monitoring solution.

Even I think Zenoss is pretty cool. No doubt. But, they really should have packaging… apt-get (or yum for RPMers) install zenoss… that would fix those nasty dependency problems.

I meet with a lot of companies that install multiple open source monitoring tools to cover their needs and there are tremendous advantages to doing so… such as rapid deployment and flexible configuration. When it comes time for a common framework, someone ends up writing a front-end to those tools and it begins to get much more difficult to grow and support.

just another hacker’s $.02

]]> By: Zenoss Blog » Open Source Network Management for Super Heroes http://www.arsgeek.com/2007/10/08/installing-an-ubuntu-monitoring-system-with-cacti-zenoss-and-smokeping/comment-page-1/#comment-24487 Zenoss Blog » Open Source Network Management for Super Heroes Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:45:44 +0000 http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=2707#comment-24487 [...] read this article tonight from ArsGeek on using Cacti, SmokePing, and Zenoss Core running on Ubuntu to create a [...] [...] read this article tonight from ArsGeek on using Cacti, SmokePing, and Zenoss Core running on Ubuntu to create a [...]

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