Due to the big push we’re having at work for the use of IT proactive monitoring systems, to keep customers’ systems and devices under control, I’ve decided to do the same on my LoneStar Network and I’ve installed Zenoss – an opensource solution for monitoring IT items.
Zenoss is distributed by a company selling it for enterprise usage, but the Core version is available free of charge, and it comes with all the features needed to reach a nice result.
I’ve dedicated a Slackware64 virtual machine to it, and after one day of work it came out to a pretty much enjoyable state. By the use of SNMP, WMI for Windows systems, and SSH for some quite ancient systems, now I’m keeping under control all LoneStar Network’s systems, a Linux VPS that I rented in the United States and all RedBaron‘s servers. This also includes email and sms alerting for critical issues, with delay – in case the problem should auto-fix within a while -, scheduled maintanence windows, and automatic repair attempts to restart those services that should suddenly stop.
A great result!
