Alternatives to nagios

[Victor Padro]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Preston Kutzner <shizzlecash at gmail.com>wrote:

> On May 11, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Mark Miller wrote:
>
> > I've been looking at Nagios as a possible network manager.  Someone
> > on the list mentioned there were others I might look at.  Everything
> > I'm finding on the net is pretty dated (2006-2007).
> >
> > Here's my situation.
> >
> > I'm a high school English teacher who has a PC computer lab of 28
> > computers running 9.04.  The installation is brand new and we're
> > just starting to learn how to use it effectively.
> >
> > I would like to have a monitoring tool installed on the teacher
> > machine (it's not a server) that will "watch" the technical aspects
> > of all 28 systems.
> >
> > This would be something down the lines of Italc (which is a teacher-
> > manager piece that allows control of the student desktops and
> > broadcasting of activity on the teacher machine for the students to
> > see) except that it would watch the technical side.
>
> I don't know of any one-stop software like this available on the Linux
> platform right now.  However, at least regarding remote control of
> desktops, this functionality is in-built on Ubuntu.  System ->
> Preferences -> Remote Desktop (and likewise Applications -> Internet -
>  > Remote Desktop Viewer.)  As for watching technical aspects of the
> machines, it might help to know what aspects your looking to monitor.
> There are several different monitoring solutions available in Linux.
> Unfortunately, most of them are server daemons that watch network
> devices in the background.
>
> You mentioned (in a portion I snipped) that the teachers will be using
> their machines as both their normal workstations as well as to monitor
> the classroom computers.  You would be able to run something such as
> Nagios, Cacti, or the like from the desktop machine just fine.  The
> only real differentiation between a Linux desktop installation and a
> server installation is the set of packages installed by default.
> Servers usually don't have a GUI installed, and generally have fewer
> packages installed overall.  So, Nagios and Apache could be installed
> on the teacher's workstation without much of an impact, if any, for
> them.
>
> HTH.
>
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Zenoss is an alternative to nagios.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aes-ES%3Aofficial&hs=rzu&q=zenoss+ubuntu&btnG=Search

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