Pandora FMS: Monitoring Open Source software

Pandora FMS is a monitoring Open Source software. It watches your systems and applications, and allows you to know the status of any element of those systems. Pandora FMS could detect a network interface down, a defacement in your website, a memory leak in one of your server application, or the movement of any value of the NASDAQ new technology market. Pandora FMS could send out SMS message when your systems fails… or when Google’s value drop below US348.60?

Detect new systems in network.
Checks for availability or performance.
Raise alerts when something goes wrong.
Allow to get data inside systems with its own lite agents (for almost every Operating System).
Allow to get data from outside, using only network probes. Including SNMP.
Get SNMP Traps from generic network devices.
Generate real time reports and graphics.
SLA reporting.
User defined graphical views.
Store data for months, ready to be used on reporting.
Real time graphs for every module.
High availability for each component.
Scalable and modular architecture.
Supports up to 2500 modules per server.
User defined alerts. Also could be used to react on incidents.
Integrated incident manager.
Integrated DB management: purge and DB compaction.
Multiuser, multi profile, multi group.
Event system with user validation for operation in teams.
Granularity of accesses and user profiles for each group and each user.
Profiles could be personalized using up to eight security attributes without limitation on groups or profiles.

Interesting article: http://www.unixmen.com/linux-tutorials/963-how-to-install-and-configure-pandora-flexible-monitoring-system-in-ubuntu

Website: http://pandorafms.org/

Monitorix: free, open source, lightweight system monitoring tool

Monitorix is a free, open source, lightweight system monitoring tool designed to monitorize as many services as possible. At this time it monitors from the CPU load and temperatures to the users using the system. Network devices activity, network services demand and even the devices’ interrupt activity are also monitored, and more. The current status of any corporate server with Monitorix installed can be accessed via a web browser.

It has been designed to be used under production UNIX/Linux servers, but due its simplicity and small size you may also use it to monitor embedded devices.

All its development was initially created for monitoring Red Hat, Fedora and CentOS Linux systems, so this project was made keeping in mind these distributions. Today it runs on different Linux distributions and even in other UNIX systems like FreeBSD.

Monitorix is an open source project and, just like any other open source project, anyone can contribute with its own time and knowledgements.

Interesting Article: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-monitorix-in-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-server.html

Website: http://www.monitorix.org/