Nagios, Zabbix, Zenoss, Hyperic?

Tom De Cooman
Inuits

Abstract

Do you want lightweight or feature full, how far do you want to go with your monitoring, just on OS level, or do you want to dig into your applications, do you want to know how many query per seconds your MySQL database is serving, or do you want to know about the internal state of your JBoss, or be triggered if the OOM killer will start working soon. This presentation will guide the audience through the different alternatives based on our experiences in the field. We will be looking both at alerting and trending and how easy or difficult it is to deploy such an environment. Monitoring the Network vs Monitoring Applications, or both?

Biography

Tom De Cooman has been a Linux user for over 8 years, and active in system administration for about 4 years. He is a general Unix system administrator with focus/strong interest in monitoring, mail and virtualisation.

Previously he has been working mostly for System Integrators and also has a lot of experience with SUN hardware and software. Currently he is working for Inuits http://www.inuits.be as a Linux/Opensource consultant.