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We returned to record our fifth episode on Sunday May 15, 2016.
Interesting News and Events
Roundtable Discussion – Network Monitoring
- Network Monitoring (is something up or down?)
- Performance Monitoring (how is something performing?)
- Application Monitoring (is an application functioning properly?)
- Environmental Monitoring (how humid or hot is my data center?)
- Electrical Monitoring (what’s the state of my PDUs, UPSs, generators?)
- Why should we monitor
- What should we monitor
- How should we monitor: SNMP , Agent …
- Categorys of Monitoring Tools : Alarming , Graphs, Trap receivers , Flow Analyzer,
- Vendor specific tools
- Overview of available tools at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_network_monitoring_systems
- Vendor Products: PRTG, SolarWinds, HP OpenView, CA Spectrum, Microsoft SCOM, Statseeker, WahtsupGold, Grafana, Zabbix
- Open Source: Nagios, Icinga, Check_MK (OMD), MRTG, RRD, Cacti,
- Custom crafted Monitoring:
- US department of Energy (https://my.es.net/)
- Challanges:
- Active vs passive monitoring (MPLS Explorer)
- Visibility (https://my.es.net)
- Maps and visualization
- Keep it up to date
- custom check development
What tools are you using?
Dominik highly recommends that folks check out Check_MK, if they are interested in looking at a new monitoring solution. Mike suggests you also give a look at PRTG, there is a 100 sensor version of PRTG available for free.
Cheers!