The DESY Computer Center is the home of O(1000) computers supplying a wide range of different services Monitoring such a large installation is a challenge. After a long time running a SNMP based commercial Network Management System, the evaluation of a new System was started. There are a lot of different commercial and freeware products on the market, but none of them fully satisfied all our requirements. After re-valuating our original requirements we selected NAGIOS as our monitoring and alarming tool. After a successful test we are in production since autumn 2002 and are extending the service to fully support a distributed monitoring and alarming.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cs/0306024,
title = {Monitoring Systems and Services},
author = {Alwin Brokmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0306024},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
Talk from the 2003 Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP03), La Jolla, Ca, USA, March 2003, 3 pages pdf,PSN THET03