Recently we come across an open source system monitoring tool called “Zabbix”
Zabbix has existed since 2001 and the recent stable version today is 2.20
We have chosen Zabbix because of the easy to use interface and the scalability/usability
Also to be mentioned:
- distributed monitoring with centralized web administration
- support for both polling and trapping mechanisms
- server software for Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OS X
- native high performance agents (client software for Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OS X, Tru64/OSF1, Windows NT4.0, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista)
- agent-less monitoring
- secure user authentication
- flexible user permissions
- web-based interface
- flexible e-mail notification of predefined events
- high-level (business) view of monitored resources
- audit log
- Many open source plugins: DBforbix, Orabix
Further features can be found on zabbix’s homepage