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Luca Cappiello

28 Jan 2010 28 Jan '10

1:12 p.m.

Hi Swinog,

I'm curious if anybody knows a good framework/application, which is used for functional tests in enterprise environments. Are any solutions out there, able to perform a operational check of all services (databases, remote access, running processes...) after updates, patches or changes of security baselines? Nagios would be probably the best choice, but maybe there other concepts I'm not aware of.

Thanks

Luca

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Gregory Agerba

28 Jan 28 Jan

1:33 p.m.

Hi Luca,

You can probably consider Zabbix, Nagios, Zenoss (OP Edition), Hyperic HQ (OP Edition), Opsview and Icinga.

Cheers.

Gregory

2010/1/28 Luca Cappiello lcap@lenzburger.ch

...

Hi Swinog,

I'm curious if anybody knows a good framework/application, which is used for functional tests in enterprise environments. Are any solutions out there, able to perform a operational check of all services (databases, remote access, running processes...) after updates, patches or changes of security baselines? Nagios would be probably the best choice, but maybe there other concepts I'm not aware of.

Thanks

Luca

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Mehmet Akcin

1:41 p.m.

I have been very happy with InterMapper

Mehmet

On 1/28/10 7:33 AM, "Gregory Agerba" gregory.agerba@gmail.com wrote:

Hi Luca,

You can probably consider Zabbix, Nagios, Zenoss (OP Edition), Hyperic HQ (OP Edition), Opsview and Icinga.

Cheers.

Gregory

2010/1/28 Luca Cappiello lcap@lenzburger.ch Hi Swinog,

Thanks

Luca

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Florian Forster

1:43 p.m.

My favourite

Is "orion network performance monitor" form solarwinds

For database checks and applications you need the aplication perfomance plugin for it.

greets

Von: swinog-bounces@lists.swinog.ch [mailto:swinog-bounces@lists.swinog.ch] Im Auftrag von Gregory Agerba Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. Januar 2010 13:33 An: Luca Cappiello Cc: swinog@lists.swinog.ch Betreff: Re: [swinog] Functional Tests - only Nagios?

Hi Luca,

You can probably consider Zabbix, Nagios, Zenoss (OP Edition), Hyperic HQ (OP Edition), Opsview and Icinga.

Cheers.

Gregory

2010/1/28 Luca Cappiello lcap@lenzburger.ch

Hi Swinog,

Thanks

Luca

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Steven Glogger

1:53 p.m.

i've seen orion from solarwinds here at networkers. it's quite a nice tool which can also process netflow, jflow, sflow whatever. but the main drawback is, that it's only running on windows ,- (

-steven

Am 28.01.2010 um 13:43 schrieb Florian Forster:

...

My favourite

Is „orion network performance monitor“ form solarwinds

For database checks and applications you need the aplication perfomance plugin for it.

greets

Von: swinog-bounces@lists.swinog.ch [mailto:swinog-bounces@lists.swinog.ch] Im Auftrag von Gregory Agerba Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. Januar 2010 13:33 An: Luca Cappiello Cc: swinog@lists.swinog.ch Betreff: Re: [swinog] Functional Tests - only Nagios?

Hi Luca,

You can probably consider Zabbix, Nagios, Zenoss (OP Edition), Hyperic HQ (OP Edition), Opsview and Icinga.

Cheers.

Gregory

2010/1/28 Luca Cappiello lcap@lenzburger.ch Hi Swinog,

I'm curious if anybody knows a good framework/application, which is used for functional tests in enterprise environments. Are any solutions out there, able to perform a operational check of all services (databases, remote access, running processes...) after updates, patches or changes of security baselines? Nagios would be probably the best choice, but maybe there other concepts I'm not aware of.

Thanks

Luca

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Florian Forster

2:03 p.m.

Yeah imho the only one "bad" point is you need IIS 6.0 or higher and a SQL2005 SP1 or higher

netflow analyzer does a great job J for graphic analysis form you traffic

Also a good part of it are the implementation for VMwares ESX and the network change manager

And no im not working for solarwinds but i working with it ;-)

Von: swinog-bounces@lists.swinog.ch [mailto:swinog-bounces@lists.swinog.ch] Im Auftrag von Steven Glogger Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. Januar 2010 13:54 Cc: swinog@lists.swinog.ch Betreff: Re: [swinog] Functional Tests - only Nagios?

i've seen orion from solarwinds here at networkers.

it's quite a nice tool which can also process netflow, jflow, sflow whatever.

but the main drawback is, that it's only running on windows ,- (

-steven

Am 28.01.2010 um 13:43 schrieb Florian Forster:

My favourite

Is "orion network performance monitor" form solarwinds

For database checks and applications you need the aplication perfomance plugin for it.

greets

Hi Luca,

You can probably consider Zabbix, Nagios, Zenoss (OP Edition), Hyperic HQ (OP Edition), Opsview and Icinga.

Cheers.

Gregory

2010/1/28 Luca Cappiello lcap@lenzburger.ch

Hi Swinog,

Thanks

Luca

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Bernd SPIESS

2:28 p.m.

@netflow go: www.cisco.com/go/netflowhttp://www.cisco.com/go/netflow and follow this links

* Commercial Software Packageshttp://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6601/networking_solutions_products_generic_content0900aecd805ff728.html * Freeware NetFlow Softwarehttp://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6601/networking_solutions_products_generic_content0900aecd805ff72b.html regarding the point of the original question:

if you look for the Microsoft world the answer is scom http://www.microsoft.com/germany/systemcenter/opsmgr/default.mspx

for non-microsoft: I don´t know :) look for the suggestions from the colleagues

bernd

From: swinog-bounces@lists.swinog.ch [mailto:swinog-bounces@lists.swinog.ch] On Behalf Of Steven Glogger Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 1:54 PM Cc: swinog@lists.swinog.ch Subject: Re: [swinog] Functional Tests - only Nagios?

i've seen orion from solarwinds here at networkers. it's quite a nice tool which can also process netflow, jflow, sflow whatever. but the main drawback is, that it's only running on windows ,- (

-steven

Am 28.01.2010 um 13:43 schrieb Florian Forster:

My favourite

Is "orion network performance monitor" form solarwinds

For database checks and applications you need the aplication perfomance plugin for it.

greets

Von: swinog-bounces@lists.swinog.chmailto:swinog-bounces@lists.swinog.ch [mailto:swinog-bounces@lists.swinog.ch] Im Auftrag von Gregory Agerba Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. Januar 2010 13:33 An: Luca Cappiello Cc: swinog@lists.swinog.chmailto:swinog@lists.swinog.ch Betreff: Re: [swinog] Functional Tests - only Nagios?

Hi Luca,

You can probably consider Zabbix, Nagios, Zenoss (OP Edition), Hyperic HQ (OP Edition), Opsview and Icinga.

Cheers.

Gregory 2010/1/28 Luca Cappiello <lcap@lenzburger.chmailto:lcap@lenzburger.ch> Hi Swinog,

Thanks

Luca

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Mehmet Akcin

2:32 p.m.

http://www.intermapper.com/products/intermapper-flows

This is very nice as well, just a thought.. Also cisco/juniper compatible.

Mehmet

On 1/28/10 8:28 AM, "Bernd SPIESS" Bernd.SPIESS@ascus.at wrote:

@netflow go: www.cisco.com/go/netflow http://www.cisco.com/go/netflow and follow this links

* Commercial Software Packages http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6601/networking_solutions_products_generic_content0900aecd805ff728.html * Freeware NetFlow Software http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6601/networking_solutions_products_generic_content0900aecd805ff72b.html

regarding the point of the original question:

if you look for the Microsoft world the answer is scom http://www.microsoft.com/germany/systemcenter/opsmgr/default.mspx

for non-microsoft: I don´t know ☺ look for the suggestions from the colleagues

bernd

i've seen orion from solarwinds here at networkers.

it's quite a nice tool which can also process netflow, jflow, sflow whatever.

but the main drawback is, that it's only running on windows ,- (

-steven

Am 28.01.2010 um 13:43 schrieb Florian Forster:

My favourite

Is „orion network performance monitor“ form solarwinds

For database checks and applications you need the aplication perfomance plugin for it.

greets

Hi Luca,

You can probably consider Zabbix, Nagios, Zenoss (OP Edition), Hyperic HQ (OP Edition), Opsview and Icinga.

Cheers.

Gregory

2010/1/28 Luca Cappiello lcap@lenzburger.ch

Hi Swinog,

Thanks

Luca

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Luca Cappiello

6:34 p.m.

Great, thank you for the fast answers and hints!

A lot seems to be "Nagios forked", with enhanced features. Sounds promising, I'm gonna evaluate the projects as soon as possible.

-Luca

Beat Siegenthaler

2:24 p.m.

On 28.01.10 13:12, Luca Cappiello wrote:

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Nagios would be probably the best choice, but maybe there other concepts I'm not aware of.

If You mention NAGIOS, you should look at http://www.icinga.org/ which is a fork of NAGIOS. "Real Programmers" are saying, that NAGIOS is a code nightmare and more or less a one man show of Ethan Galstad. I run NAGIOS myself for Years. Also for easier configuration of Nagios the Groundwork "Stuff is Real" (SCNR) http://www.groundworkopensource.com/

Beat

Mehmet Akcin

2:28 p.m.

On 1/28/10 8:24 AM, "Beat Siegenthaler" beat.siegenthaler@beatsnet.com wrote:

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Nagios the Groundwork "Stuff is Real" (SCNR) http://www.groundworkopensource.com/

GW is nothing but waking up from one nightmare and falling for another one ;)

mehmet

lists＠rebert.name

1 Feb 1 Feb

7:04 p.m.

There is another solution which is based on Nagios (Linux distribution): http://fannagioscd.sourceforge.net/ Nagios + Centreon + Nagvis + Nareto

Cheers

Luc

Beat Siegenthaler a écrit :

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On 28.01.10 13:12, Luca Cappiello wrote:

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Nagios would be probably the best choice, but maybe there other concepts I'm not aware of.

If You mention NAGIOS, you should look at http://www.icinga.org/ which is a fork of NAGIOS. "Real Programmers" are saying, that NAGIOS is a code nightmare and more or less a one man show of Ethan Galstad. I run NAGIOS myself for Years. Also for easier configuration of Nagios the Groundwork "Stuff is Real" (SCNR) http://www.groundworkopensource.com/

Beat

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Andy Davidson

28 Jan 28 Jan

2:40 p.m.

On 28 Jan 2010, at 12:12, Luca Cappiello wrote:

...

I'm curious if anybody knows a good framework/application, which is used for functional tests in enterprise environments. Are any solutions out there, able to perform a operational check of all services (databases, remote access, running processes...) after updates, patches or changes of security baselines? Nagios would be probably the best choice, but maybe there other concepts I'm not aware of.

We like Nagios a lot, and also have been tracking the progress of Icinga, which is a nagios fork, with a similar behaviour to nagios, but the development team are concentrating on the interface !

Andy

Viktor Steinmann

2:59 p.m.

We do all our checks with Hobbit http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/ It has been renamed to Xymon lately, but you'll find more scripts and stuff on the net if you google for Hobbit.

While it doesn't have a very nice interface, it scales very good and you can so your own checks very easily.

We have scripts to monitor Oracle database replications, Updates on RedHat packages, Coolwater flow in the Serverroom A/C and much more.

Kind regards, Viktor

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-----Original Message----- From: swinog-bounces@lists.swinog.ch [mailto:swinog-bounces@lists.swinog.ch] On Behalf Of Luca Cappiello Sent: Donnerstag, 28. Januar 2010 10:12 To: swinog@lists.swinog.ch Subject: [swinog] Functional Tests - only Nagios?

Hi Swinog,

I'm curious if anybody knows a good framework/application, which is used for functional tests in enterprise environments. Are any solutions out there, able to perform a operational check of all services (databases, remote access, running processes...) after updates, patches or changes of security baselines? Nagios would be probably the best choice, but maybe there other concepts I'm not aware of.

Thanks

Luca

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Andy Davidson
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Bernd SPIESS
Florian Forster
Gregory Agerba
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Luca Cappiello
Mehmet Akcin
Steven Glogger
Viktor Steinmann