devmon or mrtg which is good for network devices monitoring
list Rigved Sharma
Hi, sorry for the earlier mail..i want to know which one is good for xymon for network devices monitoring..devmon/mrtg. Please help. Rigved ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <xymon-owner at xymon.com> Date: Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 1:38 AM Subject: Returned post for xymon at xymon.com To: user-b56a11f02aef@xymon.invalid Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the xymon at xymon.com mailing list. I'm working for my owner, who can be reached at xymon-owner at xymon.com. I'm sorry, your message (enclosed) was not accepted by the moderator. If the moderator has made any comments, they are shown below. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: rigved sharma <user-b56a11f02aef@xymon.invalid> To: xymon at xymon.com Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:08:37 +0530 Subject: devmon/mrtg which is good
list Daniel J McDonald
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On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 20:56 +0530, rigved sharma wrote:
Hi, sorry for the earlier mail..i want to know which one is good for xymon for network devices monitoring..devmon/mrtg. Please help.
It's a religious question. I use mrtg because it supports snmp-v3, I already have my templates built, and I can live with the hack that is bb-mrtg.pl. Other people like devmon, but I haven't been able to test it because of the snmp-v3 issue. -- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281, CNX www.austinenergy.com
list Matthew Epp
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Daniel J McDonald wrote:
On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 20:56 +0530, rigved sharma wrote:Hi, sorry for the earlier mail..i want to know which one is good for xymon for network devices monitoring..devmon/mrtg. Please help.It's a religious question. I use mrtg because it supports snmp-v3, I already have my templates built, and I can live with the hack that is bb-mrtg.pl. Other people like devmon, but I haven't been able to test it because of the snmp-v3 issue.
I use devmon for some device polling, although it takes some time writing templates for devices. Instead of mrtg we use Cacti. It's easier to manage and most device templates already exist for importing.
list James Isolder
i would like to know if partitions are actually being monitored. they won't be in the fstab. is there a way to test is a certain partition i specify is mounted and if not bring up an alert on xymon to say it can't access the partition. James
list Jerald Sheets
put a file in the root: .isMounted It can even be empty. Then, monitor for the existence of that file. If it goes away, so has your mount. --j
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On Oct 18, 2010, at 1:25 PM, <user-7de8f896e813@xymon.invalid> <user-7de8f896e813@xymon.invalid> wrote:
i would like to know if partitions are actually being monitored. they won't be in the fstab. is there a way to test is a certain partition i specify is mounted and if not bring up an alert on xymon to say it can't access the partition. James
list Sebastian Auriol
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Epp, Matthew Mr CTR USA USA <mailto:user-c07bdcff406c@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Daniel J McDonald wrote:On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 20:56 +0530, rigved sharma wrote:Hi, sorry for the earlier mail..i want to know which one is good for xymon for network devices monitoring..devmon/mrtg. Please help.It's a religious question. I use mrtg because it supports snmp-v3, I already have my templates built, and I can live with the hack that is bb-mrtg.pl. Other people like devmon, but I haven't been able to test it because of the snmp-v3 issue.I use devmon for some device polling, although it takes some time writing templates for devices. Instead of mrtg we use Cacti. It's easier to manage and most device templates already exist for importing.
Can Cacti integrate with Xymon? I found this: http://www.deadcat.net/viewfile.php?fileid=921 But the description doesn't look confidence-inspiring. SebA 18:33:00
list Buchan Milne
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On Monday, 18 October 2010 18:18:03 Epp, Matthew Mr CTR USA USA wrote:
Daniel J McDonald wrote:On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 20:56 +0530, rigved sharma wrote:Hi, sorry for the earlier mail..i want to know which one is good for xymon for network devices monitoring..devmon/mrtg. Please help.It's a religious question. I use mrtg because it supports snmp-v3, I already have my templates built, and I can live with the hack that is bb-mrtg.pl. Other people like devmon, but I haven't been able to test it because of the snmp-v3 issue.I use devmon for some device polling, although it takes some time writing templates for devices.
For the equivalent of mrtg, you can more or less copy an existing template. The template complexity comes in when you want to do something *more* complex than what mrtg does.
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Instead of mrtg we use Cacti. It's easier to manage and most device templates already exist for importing.
Which devices do you need templates for? Have you tried creating templates for them in devmon? Regards, Buchan