[Commotion-dev] Experience with Zabbix and triggers?

[Georgia Bullen]

We looked at it at one point and it seemed pretty good, although had way
more information than we use most of the time.

We should look at it again now though as that was a few months back.

-Georgia


On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Alexander Chemeris <
alexander.chemeris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >> Field Analyst, Open Technology Institute
> >> New America Foundation
> >> +1-202-570-9770
> >> Twitter: @prestonrhea
> >>
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> >
> >
> > --
> > Ben West
> > http://gowasabi.net
> > ben at gowasabi.net
> > 314-246-9434
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> Alexander Chemeris.
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-- 
Georgia Bullen
Field Operations Technologist, Open Technology
Institute<http://oti.newamerica.net/>
New America Foundation
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