Building Linux Monitoring Portals with Open Source    Tuesday, December 21 2004 @ 08:12 PM EST Contributed by: glosser This one's for the sysadmins out there. Linux Tech brings us a tutorial on using available open source apps for monitoring servers. 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. Take a look at the demo here which is a scaled down model of our production monitoring portal. I started out with a base Red Hat ES 3.0 installation but any flavor of Linux will work. Depending on your distro, some of the above required packages might be already installed, particularly libpng, zlib and gd. Full Tutorial   [ Views: 1625 ]

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