[01:08] *** gizmoguy has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 256 seconds) [04:32] munin is pretty [04:32] * grody uses RRDtool [05:00] Oh sure munin is nice. So is nagios/opsview. And cacti. And I use them all. But I didn't think that munin (or the others) really meets their desire for host ping monitoring (while keeping it simple) [05:28] :) [05:28] i had all kinds of fun with cacti [06:32] i like cacti [06:55] smokeping is exactly that [06:55] but I find ICMP ping'ing hosts to be of little value [07:32] you could do tcp pinging with hping with smokeing [07:32] i use curl with smokeping [07:33] i didn't really read what was said before, but it does sound like smokeping is what he wants [07:34] pyvpx: also icmp isn't of little value, its' just not the be all and end all.. [07:37] ICMP is of great value [07:37] that I don't contest! [07:37] I just don't see value in solely pinging hosts w/ ICMP [07:38] for the effort involved, what does it get you? [07:40] it tends to show transit congestion quite easily [07:40] shows when people are getting ddos'ed and poor network availability [07:40] i use smokeping with small ping size [07:41] and curl to some known servers [07:41] curl uses lots of bandwidth [07:41] but yeah ping can stay the same and curl change [09:46] brycec: I used to use opsview at my last place. not too long after I left, opsview announced the free edition was going away [09:47] brycec: did they change their minds, or are you paying or it, or using an old version? [11:20] jpalmer: Last I knew, there was still a free version. you had to jump through a hoop or two (email signup form?) to get it, but it was still there, and... limited. Much more limited than Opsview had been. For awhile, I kept running the older Opsview (pre-rename), but eventually stopped bothering due to the amount of maintenance it needed (it seemed as if a slave was always becoming disconnected) [11:20] outweighing my need for it. Those places I did need something like it, I moved to monit (and mmonit) [11:21] I will say that Opsview made a real fine GUI for Nagios, and the master+slave nodes feature was a really great one. [11:23] (Oh not to mention that it was surprisingly "heavy" resource requirement-wise.) [11:23] Hm, I think I heard that BigBrother is still around... [13:03] *** gizmoguy has joined #arpnetworks [14:33] some little wannabe has been slowly port scanning my irc host [14:33] i dont know whether to laugh or cry at the sheer stupidity [14:34] there is like, one port open on this IP - and his IP got blocked at the 4000th probe [14:34] roughly [15:37] there is xymon [15:39] mercutio: Xymon (http://xymon.sourceforge.net/) looks interesting, thanks for the heads up. It seems generalized like collectd. Ideally I would like to find or either custom build a tool which monitors large numbers of hosts from a more rudimentary network perspective [15:40] Application layer is beyond the scope of interest as I have it [15:41] why not just use one of the existing monitoring systems [15:41] like pingdom etc. [15:42] It's a service I need to have in house [15:53] Oh man I had totally forgotten about xymon [15:58] xymon is nice and efficient [16:08] I would be interested to know how it compares to collectd in that regard [18:07] *** mnathani_ has joined #arpnetworks [18:57] *** mnathani_ has quit IRC ()