Comments on: Top 5 Best System Monitoring Tools http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/09/top-5-best-network-monitoring-tools/ Guides, HowTos and Tips for Technology Geeks Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:52:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Konrad http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/09/top-5-best-network-monitoring-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-191632 Konrad Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:22:54 +0000 http://www.thegeekstuff.com/?p=1708#comment-191632 I dont know why Nagios is so popular. In my opinion ICINGA is much more better than NAGIOS. If You havent seen yet, I suggest You to take a look. Friendly interface, easy to use and easy to install. Faster support and big community. Nagios core programming only one person, so for each new bug or feature You need more time. I dont know why Nagios is so popular. In my opinion ICINGA is much more better than NAGIOS. If You havent seen yet, I suggest You to take a look. Friendly interface, easy to use and easy to install. Faster support and big community. Nagios core programming only one person, so for each new bug or feature You need more time.

]]> By: hENDRIK http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/09/top-5-best-network-monitoring-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-141910 hENDRIK Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:18:31 +0000 http://www.thegeekstuff.com/?p=1708#comment-141910 I am quite comfortable with GroundWork Comunity Edition and it's autodicovery (inside amazon cloud - not sure - if the items are dicoverable and not blocking everything it should be found quite easily if correct communication methods are in place) - the rest I haven't used, or it didn't work for me :D I am quite comfortable with GroundWork Comunity Edition and it’s autodicovery (inside amazon cloud – not sure – if the items are dicoverable and not blocking everything it should be found quite easily if correct communication methods are in place) – the rest I haven’t used, or it didn’t work for me :D

]]> By: Manojkumar http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/09/top-5-best-network-monitoring-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-141907 Manojkumar Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:15:25 +0000 http://www.thegeekstuff.com/?p=1708#comment-141907 can anyone say which is the best tool for auto discovery of servers in amazon cloud??? its better if u give open source tool Thanks can anyone say which is the best tool for auto discovery of servers in amazon cloud??? its better if u give open source tool Thanks

]]> By: hENDRIK http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/09/top-5-best-network-monitoring-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-141472 hENDRIK Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:25:29 +0000 http://www.thegeekstuff.com/?p=1708#comment-141472 Saijusgeorge, may i ask why you say that? Just interested in your reasoning Saijusgeorge, may i ask why you say that? Just interested in your reasoning

]]> By: saijusgeorge http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/09/top-5-best-network-monitoring-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-141156 saijusgeorge Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:04:23 +0000 http://www.thegeekstuff.com/?p=1708#comment-141156 I have configured OpenNMS and Nagios , But OpenNMS is far much better than Nagios .... I have configured OpenNMS and Nagios , But OpenNMS is far much better than Nagios ….

]]> By: Brian King http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/09/top-5-best-network-monitoring-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-127421 Brian King Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:31:14 +0000 http://www.thegeekstuff.com/?p=1708#comment-127421 my vote is for <a href="http://www.opsview.com/products/opsview-mobile" rel="nofollow">Opsview</a>. Especially like their new mobile app. my vote is for Opsview. Especially like their new mobile app.

]]> By: Joseph John http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/09/top-5-best-network-monitoring-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-92907 Joseph John Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:47:41 +0000 http://www.thegeekstuff.com/?p=1708#comment-92907 Dud you miss "Zabbix " and "ZenOSS" For me ZenOSS is my favourite Dud you miss “Zabbix ” and “ZenOSS”
For me ZenOSS is my favourite

]]> By: Sumit Pandya http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/09/top-5-best-network-monitoring-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-78026 Sumit Pandya Sat, 08 Jan 2011 14:37:07 +0000 http://www.thegeekstuff.com/?p=1708#comment-78026 NetXMS and OpenNMS are wonderful next-generation tool. NetXMS and OpenNMS are wonderful next-generation tool.

]]> By: Mark Seger http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/09/top-5-best-network-monitoring-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-64248 Mark Seger Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:25:48 +0000 http://www.thegeekstuff.com/?p=1708#comment-64248 I think one of the overriding questions to all of this is WHY are people monitoring? Is it to get a general sense of their system's health OR collect enough data to be able to diagnose a future problem, because I believe the 2 are not the same. For example, if you're collecting data over the network and the network dies, you may not be able to get the very data you need to diagnose it. If you're only collecting data at a rate of a minute or so you may not have the granularity to see what's really going on. I'm talking about monitoring at 1-10 second intervals and not generating a load of more that 1% even at a 1 second sampling rate. There are tools with this capability. Then there is visualization, which you need if you have a lot of data to look at. If you want accuracy for diagnostic purposes and use RRD, you may be surprised to know it does not plot your data faithfully but rather normalizes it. This is fine for rough trends but not for deeper analysis - that's why I use gnuplot. Not as pretty, but it always tells the truth. In any event, if anyone wants to discuss any of these point in more detail I'll be happy to elaborate on any/all of them. -mark I think one of the overriding questions to all of this is WHY are people monitoring? Is it to get a general sense of their system’s health OR collect enough data to be able to diagnose a future problem, because I believe the 2 are not the same.
For example, if you’re collecting data over the network and the network dies, you may not be able to get the very data you need to diagnose it.
If you’re only collecting data at a rate of a minute or so you may not have the granularity to see what’s really going on. I’m talking about monitoring at 1-10 second intervals and not generating a load of more that 1% even at a 1 second sampling rate. There are tools with this capability.
Then there is visualization, which you need if you have a lot of data to look at. If you want accuracy for diagnostic purposes and use RRD, you may be surprised to know it does not plot your data faithfully but rather normalizes it. This is fine for rough trends but not for deeper analysis – that’s why I use gnuplot. Not as pretty, but it always tells the truth.

In any event, if anyone wants to discuss any of these point in more detail I’ll be happy to elaborate on any/all of them.

-mark

]]> By: Frank Beers http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/09/top-5-best-network-monitoring-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-59548 Frank Beers Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:02:31 +0000 http://www.thegeekstuff.com/?p=1708#comment-59548 I think Absolute Performance is worth mentioning, there is a lot of buzz about there solutions and their ability to monitoring end-to-end user performance. They also have a product called NetWalk that is gaining traction in the enterprise space. There are a few others that are on the up and up as well, appfirst, scoutapp, and cloudkick. I think Absolute Performance is worth mentioning, there is a lot of buzz about there solutions and their ability to monitoring end-to-end user performance. They also have a product called NetWalk that is gaining traction in the enterprise space. There are a few others that are on the up and up as well, appfirst, scoutapp, and cloudkick.

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