[BBLISA] Monitoring survey

[Rob Taylor]

Strictly for fault monitoring we use nagios. It was setup a long while back, and for what it does, it seems to works.
Ours is an old version that I'm looking to see if we can upgrade to something a little more modern since the server it's on is EOL, and scheduled to get replaced.
I have solarwinds orion NPM for monitoring the network, but I'm not a fan of their pricing, which I think is pretty high per element/sensor.
I will admit also I'm not on the current version of solarinds orion npm, as the setup when I first did it was somewhat of a pain with getting sql server running first
before getting the app running, and when I tried to do an upgrade to the current version, it went sideways, and I had to revert my vm to a snapshot.

I picked up PRTG to do some storage array monitoring that I couldn't seem to get done in solarwinds that way I wanted it, and it was super easy to set up in contrast to
solarwinds, and they update it pretty regularly and keep adding new sensor types, with many added for vmware, ucs, cloud services, etc.
I could get the 1000 sensor license for less than the cost of solarwinds's 250 sensor license. (And the 100 sensor version is free).
I also have the Solarwinds Engineer's Toolset for times when I'm doing some troubleshooting.

If you need to do some log alerting as well, you can use SEC (https://simple-evcorr.github.io/) to do that, or splunk is free below 500 megs of logs a day.

rgt

Whitehead Network/System Administrator

----- On Feb 3, 2016, at 6:12 PM, John Miller johnmill at brandeis.edu wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> We're currently on the market for some new monitoring software --
> Hyperic isn't keeping up well with the times.  We're also using
> SolarWinds for the network side of things.  Primarily we're looking
> for server/app monitoring, but consolidating things into a single tool
> might also make sense.  We're running a mix of local VMs (VMware and
> XenServer) as well as EC2 instances, ELB instances, and Route 53 for
> our DNS.
> 
> Before I start demoing 20-odd different products, I thought I'd ping
> the group: what are you all using for monitoring?  Are you happy with
> it?  What would you do differently if you had to stand up a new
> monitoring solution?
> 
> John
> 
> --
> John Miller
> Systems Engineer
> Brandeis University
> johnmill at brandeis.edu
> 
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