I'm looking for some feedback/ideas on how others may have implemented
Observium in a multi-site capacity.
We are currently using MRTG to provide our data collection and
graphing. While Observium isn't a perfect replacement for us, it goes a
long way towards replacing much of what MRTG does.
Our current setup involves a large university campus. We have core,
distribution, and access layers, and at the distribution layers we've
implemented monitoring systems for packet capture and (you guessed it)
MRTG. This allows for:
- Data collection to continue even if a distribution layer site is
isolated from the core
- Prevents data collection bandwidth from impacting the core
Our MRTG data presentation is largely homegrown, and how we go about it
isn't important. What I'm looking for are suggestions on how one might
take a multi-server setup and allow someone to search or navigate to a
given building or switch without having to guess as to which
distribution site it's out of. Ideas rattling around my head right now
involve:
- Coding up the search function so that it not only searches the local
site, but also all of the other servers
- Coming up with some static page that indicates that a given building
is off of a given installation - this one I don't like so much
So I'm wondering if this is something someone else has put time and
effort into and has a viable solution.
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Eric Stewart - Network Administrator - eric(a)usf.edu
University of South Florida, Information Technology
