Linux Tech: Building Linux Monitoring Portals with Open Source
Dec 22, 2004, 06:15 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Don O'Neill)
[ Thanks to Don for
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"Faced with an increasing number of deployed Linux servers and
no budget for commercial monitoring tools, our company looked into
open-source solutions for gathering performance and security
information from our Unix environment. There are many open-source
monitoring packages to choose from, including Big Sister and Nagios
to name a few. Though some of these try to provide an all-in-one
solution, I knew we would probably end up combining a few tools to
obtain the metrics we were looking for. This article is meant to
give a general overview of the steps in building a monitoring
solution..."
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