The following article guides through the steps of installing and configuring Nagios3 and Check_MK on a Ubuntu 12.04 LTS VPS.
Once deployed, you will be able to monitor your virtual servers and the services running on them.
Nagios3 is a robust and very powerful monitoring system, which in combination with Check_MK will provide you with a nice and easy way to monitor your virtual servers and services.
Today we’ll show you how to install Monit on your Centos VPS. Monit is a monitoring and managing as well as an automatic maintenance tool. The monitoring can be directly on the command line or on the web. You can assign Monit multiple tasks (not only monitoring), so if a certain service fails the check, Monit can alert or do something about it (try to restart the service for example).
In the following article we will show you how to install Munin on a CentOS 6 VPS so you can monitor your virtual servers resource usage.
Munin is a networked resource monitoring tool that can help analyze resource usage of servers and services. It has a master/slave architecture in which the master connects to all the slaves at regular intervals and asks them for data.
It is written in perl and is very fast and robust monitoring tool.