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I was looking for a Nagios application to install on my iPhone for tests purpose and I was surprised to find more hits than expected. It’s true that Nagios is one of the best (if not THE best) open-source monitoring solutions. There is a huge community of developers and contributors busy to add extra features [...]

A few weeks ago, I received a copy of Cacti 0.8 Network Monitoring from Packt Publishing. Here is my review. The book has been written by Dinangkur Kundu and S.M. Ibrahim Lavlu, who have both strong open-source softwares knowledge. Their book covers Cacti, a well-known framework (running on top of a LAMP server) to collect [...]

A new website opened yesterday: monitoringforge.org. The purpose is to centralize in one place a lot of open source monitoring tools, going from full monitoring suite to simple scripts ready to use in your daily job. I found this a very good initiative. Why? When we speak about “security”, we often refer to the CIA-triad. [...]

I found this pyramid in a document written by Groundwork. It resumes perfectly how to deploy a monitoring solution in the best way. This post is completely independent of the monitoring tool, choose the best one to meet your expectations. Often, when a company decides to implement a monitoring/reporting tool, they would like to have [...]

Groundwork is a well-known monitoring tool. In my job, I deploy Groundwork servers from small to quite very-complex infrastructures: it’s an amazing application. I’ll not describe it here, just go to the official web site for a detailed review. Groundwork is available in three versions: full open source and two commercial releases (small business and [...]