[Commotion-dev] Experience with Zabbix and triggers?

[Alexander Chemeris]

May be a bit off-topic, but have you guys seen Inveneo's NMS?
http://www.ictworks.org/2013/08/07/inveneos-network-management-software-now-available-to-the-public/

It looks like a great thing to me and worth cooperating with if one
need an open-source NMS.

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:21 AM, Ben West <ben at gowasabi.net> wrote:
> I've worked with Zabbix before, but I found it rather fussy to set up in the
> first place.  For monitoring, I've had better experiences using munin,
> especially since munin's default graphing function is generally quite nice
> out of the box.
>
> Another detail is what local agent must run on the nodes to collect whatever
> data is to be sent the dashboard.  cron-based dashboard checkin scripts are
> common; ROBIN mesh used this approach and I think WLAN Slovenia's uses it
> now too.
>
> Alternatively, OpenWRT does have packages for both a local zabbix agent and
> also a shell-based munin agent ("muninlite") on the node.
>
> https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/packages/admin/zabbix
> https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/packages/admin/muninlite
> http://munin-monitoring.org/wiki/OpenWRT-HowTo
>
> I was briefly looking into having muninlite to run locally on WasabiNet
> nodes and talk to a munin server in the Cloud. However, I ultimately veered
> away from this tool, as it requires xinetd to run continuously (chewing up
> ~1Mbyte of RAM).
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Preston Rhea
> <prestonrhea at opentechinstitute.org> wrote:
>>
>> We are exploring Zabbix as a monitoring tool for Commotion nodes. It
>> can report some useful stuff, but for it to be easier to monitor the
>> status of a whole network, one would need to use triggers and group
>> data aggregation to read information at a glance.
>>
>> Has anyone worked with Zabbix who could provide some guidance,
>> especially with triggers and data aggregation on the dashboard?
>>
>> --
>> Preston Rhea
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>> New America Foundation
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