In pursuit of a monitoring solution for CentOS Linux

It's about that time where it has become almost necessary to setup a monitoring/analysis solution for the linux servers. The hardware is getting a bit outdated and empirical data speaks for itself when asking for new stuff!

Based on my research, there is no one perfect solution - especially when it comes to Open Source and Linux.

At the very least, the following will need to be monitored:

• Apache
• Mysql
• Network Traffic
• Disk Space
• Server Load
• Memory Utilization
• Swap usage
• Processes

In the next few weeks some tests will be done using the following software offerings(in no particular order):

• cacti
• munin
• nagios
• opennms
• zabbix
• zenoss

Which one will be the best fit? Time and Testing will tell.

-n