Netsaint

Thu, 27 Jun 2002 19:15:23 -0700

My experience is that it scales well from 1 system to 500 systems. I use it at home to monitor my old pentium 133 system and also have implemented it successfully for a managed services company to monitor 500+ systems. With too many systems to monitor I had to fine tune the system communication with SOAP, XML and Java. It really worked great.

But of course -- we were set a mere consultants who implemented the project, before a hotshot ex-Motorola manager took control of the project, cancelled the the netsaint installation over Intellectual Property issue(How intelligent he could be?), signed a contract with HP for OpenView at $50000/site and bankrupt the company. 

After few months, he contacted me for a job oportunity in my new company. OK, that's all together another big story. 

Anyway it is great product and scales really well.

Sundar

On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 16:38:57 -0700
"slr" <zen2now@qwest.net> wrote:

> well i was looking to monitor my exchange server, PDC, SQL server, 4 Samba 
> servers, 5 webservers, 3 DNS servers, my routers and switches, and 3 MySQL 
> servers. in this senario would netsaint be an overkill? i am trying out ntop 
> right now, what is your feeling about this app?
> 
> as for NEAT, i check the netsaint.cfg and netsaint_user=contains my netsaint 
> user and not the apacheuser. :~(
> 
> slr
> 
> On Thursday 27 June 2002 03:50 pm, Lowell Hamilton wrote:
> > > maybe a better question would be, is Netsaint worth the hassle? are there
> > > better tools for this that are easier to setup?
> >
> > Depends on what you want to monitor .. if you want to check a tiny
> > webserver or just a couple little hosts with the most basic checks,
> > netsaint is a lot of extra hassle.  Netsaint doesn't become really handy
> > until  you start implementing larger networks or have several hosts
> > monitoring  dozens of services each.  I have a 5100-point of failure
> > netsaint install going watching almost 100 points of failure on several
> > machines, something no other opensource monitoring software could handle
> > without blowing the system up or becoming unmaintainable.  For small
> > stuff though, hit freshmeat .. software like bigbrother would probably
> > work.
> >
> > In regards to your problem, it sounds like NEAT set the userid in
> > /usr/local/netsaint/etc/netsaint.cfg  to apacheuser ... edit this file
> > and make sure all the paths and users are correct for what you need.
> >
> > Lowell
> >
> > On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 15:04, slr wrote:
> > > slr
> > >
> > > On Thursday 27 June 2002 02:14 pm, slr wrote:
> > > > Ok here goes, cause i guess i am going to be one of those that will
> > > > struggle. i downloaded and installed NEAT4.9 because at 1st glance it
> > > > looked like it would make administration easier. i can pull up the web
> > > > interface and edit the host.cfg, which BTW i couldnt do by using the
> > > > httpd default group and chmod g+w host.cfg as suggested in the
> > > > README.txt for NEAT. the problem now is when i try to verify and
> > > > restart netsaint using the NEAT web interface i get this error msg:
> > > >
> > > > ERROR - userid apacheuser (this is not the real default httpd user)
> > > > cannot run /usr/local/netsaint/bin/netsaint to verify your config. This
> > > > is probably your httpd userid. Fix this
> > > >
> > > > i am not sure why it is using this apache user, it is not entered in
> > > > the netsaint.cfg file. any ideas?
> > > >
> > > > slr
> > > >
> > > >
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