[AusNOG] Network Management and Tools

[Simon Lyall]

On Mon, 5 Jul 2010, David Hughes wrote:
> I know we all do it but why do we all think it's perfectly fine to 
> collect almost every single monitoring metric twice ?  What an amazingly 
> inefficient way of doing this.  Problem is I can't find anything that 
> I'd be happy to use as a replacement for nagios and cacti.  Surely it 
> would make total sense to extend nagios so it actually remembered the 
> data it collected rather than just doing a real-time evaluation and then 
> throwing the data away.  There are some nagios rrd type hacks but, 
> really, how hard could this really be.

Flapjack ( http://flapjack-project.com/ ) is an interesting project in 
this area (and "Made in Australia") but it is a bit alpha at this stage.


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