Good Agentless monitoring packages?

Tue Nov 25 16:41:11 PST 2003

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Michael T. Halligan wrote:

> I'm looking for a decent agentless monitoring package.. I've been using
> netsaint/nagios for a few years, and like it, but I need something that's
> a bit easier to chew on, using already included tools like snmp or rpcstats ..
>
> Any thoughts?

I use this:

    http://www.kernel.org/software/mon/

It's certainly "agentless" in that it is monitoring-method-agnostic. It
can use SNMP to acquire the status of whatever you're interested in,
or it doesn't need to.

It includes a good number of monitor programs in the distribution,
and there are a user-contributed set of them available here, in case
you don't see what you need in the standard set of modules:

    http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/admin/mon/contrib/index.html

Jim Trocki <trockij at transmeta.com>
Computer System and Network Engineer
Transmeta Corporation
Santa Clara, CA