Yes, thats what I do. Observium for graphing stuff over time and other SNMP-stuff. Icinga2(nagios fork) for all kind of checks for alerting. /Markus

2017-03-13 16:48 GMT+01:00 Mark Boyce mark@darkorigins.com:

Hi

On 13 Mar 2017, at 15:23, Rick Heil rickheil@partnersandsimons.com wrote:

You could probably abuse the unix agent into doing some of this, but Observium really isn’t a replacement for Nagios – they do two different things for most people.

So you’d suggest we keep the systems split? Observium for monitoring / graphing SNMP land and nagios / sensu / something else for ad hoc probes … ?

... trying to make sure I’m heading down the right path as I set off, rather than having to backtrack later on :-)

Thanks

Mark

-R

*From: *observium observium-bounces@observium.org on behalf of Mark Boyce mark@darkorigins.com *Reply-To: *Observium Public Support observium@observium.org *Date: *Monday, March 13, 2017 at 10:21 AM *To: *observium@observium.org *Subject: *[Observium] Simple service checks?

Hi All

Very new to observium, so please forgive me if this is a silly question :-)

In order to migrate away from nagios we also want to be able to track non-snmp values. For example;

• Response time of web sites (is response correct, if so report response

time)

• SSL Certificate (is cert ok, if so report number of days left)

… and similar

Very easily scriptable checks, I just can’t work out what to do with them.

Ideally I’d like to create a device that doesn’t respond to SNMP checks but gets data from a local script.

Is this achievable or am I completely misusing Observium? Simply trying to get everything monitoring from one place :-)

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Exactly – we maintain a split too. I use observium for historical data to assist with troubleshooting, as well as monitoring trends. Alerting is only done for things that are easy over SNMP (e.g. temperature, disk, CPU load). Nagios or simiar can’t be beat for simple application sanity checks. The combination of the two is very powerful.

-R

From: observium observium-bounces@observium.org on behalf of Mark Boyce mark@darkorigins.com Reply-To: Observium Public Support observium@observium.org Date: Monday, March 13, 2017 at 12:04 PM To: Observium Public Support observium@observium.org Subject: Re: [Observium] Simple service checks?

On 13 Mar 2017, at 15:51, Markus Klock markus@best-practice.se wrote:

Yes, thats what I do.

Observium for graphing stuff over time and other SNMP-stuff.

Icinga2(nagios fork) for all kind of checks for alerting.

/Markus

Thanks, will go have a look at Icinga2 … I’m sure if I stick a menu on the front that says Graphing History & Service Checks I can convince our lot it’s a single system like they wanted :-)

Mark

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