System monitoring

[gameslover987 at yahoo.com (Dava Peters)]

Hi all,

I am also interesting about MON. I'm try to find any
configuration document. Does anyone can help? I search
about MON with very limited information.

Thanks in advance.

--
DP

--- Chris Devers <cdevers at pobox.com> wrote:
> From: Chris Devers <cdevers at pobox.com>
> To: Boston Linux Users Group <discuss at blu.org>
> Subject: Re: System monitoring
> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:21:25 -0400 (EDT)
>
> On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Cole Tuininga wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 15:21,
> dsr at tao.merseine.nu
> wrote:
> Have you evaluated mon?
>
> Nope - do you use it?  If so, what do you like
> about it?
>
> My company uses Mon, and people seem to like it.
>
> The thing to keep in mind is that Mon, like some
> of
> the other network
> monitoring packages you'll find, sits on top of
> the
> SNMP protocol. SNMP
> is nice because it lets you query all kinds of
> statistics about any
> given network attached host -- where "host" in
> this
> context includes
> things like printers, routers, etc along with
> more
> conventional things
> like servers, desktops, and laptops.
>
> So what you really need may be a toolkit that
> sits
> on top of SNMP and
> provides you with various reports about what's
> going
> on with your
> network. Anything that tries to do this without
> using SNMP is probably
> going about the problem the wrong way.
>
> Here, we have Mon filling this role by emailing
> is
> with things like
> status reports, warning & error reports, pages
> with
> critical errors, and
> so on. Additionally, it provides a web interface
> that informs us what's
> going on -- what systems are acting up, what
> recent
> activity we've been
> having on different hosts, etc.
>
> Mon was set up here before I started, so I can't
> really address the
> issues that may have come up in building the
> infrastructure for it. My
> main complaint is that the number of email
> alerts
> can be overwhelming,
> and picking out the relevant stuff can be a lot
> of
> work. I don't know if
> this is a general Mon issue or if it's a side
> effect
> of local policies.
>
> Learn more about Mon here:
>
>     <http://www.kernel.org/software/mon/>
>
>
> Another tool worth looking at is MRTG, which
> provides a web interface
> with very nice activity graphs for all your
> network
> devices.
>
>
>
> <http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/>
> > >
> > > We use MRTG here as a complement to what Mon
> > > provides.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Chris Devers
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