[Ubuntu-ma] Monitoring linux

[Nordin]

  On 15-9-2010 16:39, mezgani ali wrote:
> Salam,
>
> Monitoring many servers is one of the most sensitive tasks that ever
> administrator must do, well it always depends on the need and the scale of
> machine to monitor. It is always good idea to keep a database with many
> snapshots of states of machines.

Yes, that's a good point, but to keep a snapshot, you need a big storage 
for each client, right? I mean, if a client saves a lot of pdf files of 
a few MB's each, than a 100 GB is not sufficient. But the client should 
pay for that ofcourse.

> Personally, i used nagios, ntop, cacti or maybe munin for supervision and
> alert, and i set a wiki with all characteristic of machines, addresses,
> emplacement, N° series, numer of tel of technical support team, ....

That's a good point too, I need to do some serious administrations of 
clients, like you said: telnr, email, bills...

> In the fact, i think that a large enterprise must delegate similar job to a
> dedicated structure, and free time of administrators to others things,
> however there are many good team in Morocco that help to addresses
> supervision and monitoring plan for enterprise as like as Native LABS.

Well, let me start with administering stuff here myself. But when I 
gather enough clients, it would be nice if I can outsource it to my 
bledy (mon pay) ;-)

>
>
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Nordin Bouchtaoui<bouchtaoui at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> 2010/9/14 ISLAM Abou El Ata<kindyroot at gmail.com>
>>
>> Salam,
>>> It depends pretty much on what you're most interested in, here's a simple
>>> rule of thumb:
>>>
>>> - most Interested in monitoring performance>>  run "top" or "htop" over
>>> SSH.
>>>
>> I'm already familiar with that.
>>
>>
>>> - most interested in monitoring security>>  run Snort with e-mail alerts.
>>>
>> For now, this is not needed. It's not for the government with sensitive
>> data or something.
>>
>>
>>> - most interested in monitoring traffic>>  run javascript based stats and
>>> traffic analysis (such as Google Analytics).
>>> - most interested in having a global view of your server set and having a
>>> dashboard>>  see GLPI, Mandriva Pulse, and Zabbix.
>>> - most interested in networking>>  see Nagios.
>>>
>> I don't want to annoy you but these tools all do the same, it's a matter of
>> taste.
>> For what I need I think Nagios is enough for me.
>>
>> But what do you use? Are you administering also several servers? I remember
>> Hassan told me he manages hundreds of servers, so I was curious about how
>> he's doing that, don't take it personal.
>>
>>
>>> - most interested in something not in the list>>  reply back with details.
>>>
>>> I hope this helps.
>>>
>> Always :)
>>
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