Hi Guys, I'm looking for a monitoring solution for my home servers and lab servers, and am looking for recommendations Requirements: SNMP monitoring Service monitoring Email alerts Open Source preferably Thanks guys DT.
I've used Nagios - setting up the config can be laborious but it will defo do what you want. Zabbix is much easier to configure for your likely needs as it is web based, and as a bonus it'll provide graphs as well as alerts. Nagios is alerts only, it won't graph interface/CPU/memory usage as an example but Zabbix will.
Took a look at the following: Observium - good and nice graphs but alerts are not officially supported (and being upgraded in pro version so their is no docs in the community version) Icinga & Nagios - Liked them both, but found them very hard to configure as their does not seem to be a full install guide, Nagios core default interface seems a little sparce to (personal opinion) but thank you for the recommendation was good fun setting them both up PRTG - found very easy to install and use so will be sticking with, but it is very cpu intensive on a default install, however it is alerting correctly as can be seen from the below screenshot: Don't think i will ever have more than 100 nodes at home, and if i do well erm ... time to start worrying. Thank you all for your help, + rep to all DT.
We've shifted at work from Cacti (which is ok, but not really developed any more) to Zabbix, which is working pretty well. Zabbix has a few oddities but it does everything you want.
