CNet have a interview with Dave Lilly, GroundWork CEO.
In the same way that Red Hat integrates the Linux kernel and more than 500 open-source components to deliver Red Hat Enterprise Linux, GroundWork packages, integrates, and documents more than 80 best-of-breed open-source network and systems management projects.
There is a tendency sometimes to think that system monitoring tools like munin, zenoss, zabbix or nagios are mainly for the sysadmin. We think the people who can benefit from monitoring is considerably bigger.
How to setup a 2-way alerting service over sms/text/pager, in this instance, for Nagios.
We’re really hoping that Part two and three do indeed follow in a timely fashion and deliver the goods, because part one certainly whets the appetite. (Update: Part two and Part three are up)
Good quality alerting is really useful and important, but there are so many issues to deal with:
Chris Josephes makes an excellent point about disk usage alerts:
[T]he monitoring system should compare the standard deviation for the file-system percentage over the past 24 hours, and compare it to the standard deviation for the past hour.
It isn’t (just) about what percentage of the file-system is full/free, but how fast it’s filling up. A disk that has sat at 20% full for a year, then creeps up to 50% full in 24 hours …. is that something worth pointing out?
So what else, aside disk, might you want more intelligent monitoring on?
