Monitoring tool for a large enterprice? Is Nagios suitable to any degree?

[Patrick Friedel]

Andrew Cruse wrote:

>There's two ways that I do it, depending on the situation.  If it's an
>item that only needs to be polled every 5 minutes or less, I let Cacti
>do the polling, and then use the check_rrd plugin (google should turn it
>up) to check the values Cacti gets and alert based on those values.  If
>I need polling more often than every 5 minutes, I do the polling in
>Nagios and uses Nagiostat to create the RRD and then use Cacti to
>display graphs from the RRD files created by Nagiostat.
>
>Andrew
>  
>
  Well, it didn't _entirely_ work (had to scrounge for it from 
nagiosexchange), but it gave me enough insight into how the system works 
to brave writing my own plugin that reads rrdtool data and alerts based 
on traffic floors I designate.  Thankfully I can use Cacti's polling 
interval, as this is only for scenarios where I can go to my telco 
vendor and have them fix the minor problem before it becomes a major 
problem, so it doesn't have to be immediate, just before the other PVC 
croaks and puts us up the proverbial creek.

  Thanks for the direction!


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