I met Roger Rustad at SCALE 2008 over the weekend, he's trying to organize IT monitoring enthusiasts in the greater LA area. He's got a wiki where he's collecting useful information on Nagios, see it here:
http://nagioswiki.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
I've uploaded a new version of the GroundWork Open Source bootable ISO (Monday, July 2, on SourceForge, file name groundwork-monitor-CD-5.1.0.x86.iso (http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=160654&sel_platform=1491)) where I've added a rudimentary capability to save data from a running bootable ISO to a USB memory stick. Instructions on getting data out of a running instance ...
Now that GroundWork has a full complement of GroundWork Monitor Open Source (GWMOS) versions to download from SourceForge, the question becomes: "Which version of GroundWork for me?" This document reviews the various incarnations of GWMOS and how choose among them.
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GroundWork Monitor Open Source is available four ways:
1) Bootable ISO
2) ...
In addition to:
1) the updated Red Hat / CentOS rpm,
2) the new SuSE 9 and SuSE 10 rpms, and
3) the updated bootable ISO,
a new VMWare edition, also based on GWMOS 5.0.5, is now downloadable from SourceForge at:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=160654
It's a LARGE download (>700MB) but if you're looking to monitor through a VMWare ...
As our monitoring SIG on Nagios and Ganglia was starting, Back Bay LISA in Boston was wrapping up a Nagios and SEC (Simple Event Correlator) presentation. The notes to their meeting are here:
<a title="http://www.bblisa.org/pipermail/bblisa/2007-January/001116.html" href="http://www.bblisa.org/pipermail/bblisa/2007-January/001116.html">http://www.bblisa.org/pipermail/bblisa/2007-January/001116.html</a>
Lots of great info about configuring Nagios and upcoming features in Nagios 3.
And the slides from ...
Our CEO, Ranga Rangachari, made me aware of the following web page where Stanford Linear Accelerator lists the IT Monitoring (mostly, Network Monitoring) tools they use. It's a great summary page for anyone looking to get a start in this area, but I don't see any evaluation or assessment:
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/xorg/nmtf/nmtf-tools.html ...
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