In search of a good Infrastructure monitoring solution for my VMware ESXi Hosts, Windows Server Guests, HP P2000 SAN, Local storage, HP Switches..
MY title really says it all, I am looking for a way to monitor, gather reporting, be able to remotely troubleshoot and examine via iPhone my infrastructure. I tried Pulseway for a little, but it does nothing for Storage\switches\ESXi Host hardware, RAID configs. What do people recommend.
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Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)
Use, SNMP, and select either PRTG or Observium. (both available in FREE editions)
Splunk will do this.
if you have VMware vSphere, you may be entitled to use VMware Log Insight for FREE.
depends what data you want to look at logs, or real time alerting, capacity management, what if graphs ?
depends what data you want to look at logs, or real time alerting, capacity management, what if graphs ?
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To answer your question simply, I want to be able to report and monitor on all aspects of my VMware setup. What about my SAN Storage, controllers?
What do you want to monitor ?
e.g. health and performance ?
because that's two different metrics ?
and do you want email alerts, or visual traffic lights ?
Take a look at PRTG and Observium, for EVERYTHING, which means enabled SNMP on EVERYTHING.
(both offer evaluations, free and trial versions)
Do you want an iPhone App or Web GUI e.g. browser ?
Do you hav a budget for this sofware or want free, is this production or your Lab ?
e.g. health and performance ?
because that's two different metrics ?
and do you want email alerts, or visual traffic lights ?
Take a look at PRTG and Observium, for EVERYTHING, which means enabled SNMP on EVERYTHING.
(both offer evaluations, free and trial versions)
Do you want an iPhone App or Web GUI e.g. browser ?
Do you hav a budget for this sofware or want free, is this production or your Lab ?
ASKER
Andrew, Here are your answers.
What do you want to monitor ? Health, performance, RAID config, Storage utilization, SAN, Guest performance, Network performance.
e.g. health and performance ? ALL
because that's two different metrics ? ALL
and do you want email alerts, or visual traffic lights ? combo would be beneficial.
Take a look at PRTG and Observium, for EVERYTHING, which means enabled SNMP on EVERYTHING.
(both offer evaluations, free and trial versions)
Do you want an iPhone App or Web GUI e.g. browser ? Combo,
Do you hav a budget for this sofware or want free, is this production or your Lab ? production and I do not want free. I have some funds for this...
What do you want to monitor ? Health, performance, RAID config, Storage utilization, SAN, Guest performance, Network performance.
e.g. health and performance ? ALL
because that's two different metrics ? ALL
and do you want email alerts, or visual traffic lights ? combo would be beneficial.
Take a look at PRTG and Observium, for EVERYTHING, which means enabled SNMP on EVERYTHING.
(both offer evaluations, free and trial versions)
Do you want an iPhone App or Web GUI e.g. browser ? Combo,
Do you hav a budget for this sofware or want free, is this production or your Lab ? production and I do not want free. I have some funds for this...
It seems it's not just money you will need to throw at this, it's time to set up all the monitoring and reporting that you need for the health and performance of your infrastructure.
As has been previously said, SNMP provides endless data, then you need to decide exactly what tools you will use to consume the metrics to analyse, report and act on your data.
I think you're looking for a one stop shop solution for something which requires some time and set up to achieve in full.
Shaun
As has been previously said, SNMP provides endless data, then you need to decide exactly what tools you will use to consume the metrics to analyse, report and act on your data.
I think you're looking for a one stop shop solution for something which requires some time and set up to achieve in full.
Shaun
I would take a look at PRTG and Observium, (SNMP) but you may have to find two different tools for health and monitoring.
e.g. VMware Operations Manager as well, for Capacity. (VMware vSphere)
e.g. VMware Operations Manager as well, for Capacity. (VMware vSphere)
(Disclaimer: I work for Paessler!)
PRTG will give you health and availability statistics for VMware, as well as for the other IT equipment and systems you listed. It comes with checks (called "sensors" in PRTG-speak) for roughly 200 things you might want to monitor, and you can easily add your own custom checks if you need to. There's an overview of VMware monitoring with PRTG here, and more details about the VMware sensors here (scroll down towards the bottom of this list).
There's a trial version of PRTG that lets you run with an unlimited number of sensors for 30 days, after which it becomes our freeware version with 100 sensors. If you only want to look at your VMware environment, and you don't have too many hosts, the 100 sensors might be enough. If you want to also look at Windows, your SAN, your switches, etc, then you'll use up the 100 sensors very quickly and will probably need one of the commercial licenses.
Just let me know if you need a hand with the trial or configuration!
PRTG will give you health and availability statistics for VMware, as well as for the other IT equipment and systems you listed. It comes with checks (called "sensors" in PRTG-speak) for roughly 200 things you might want to monitor, and you can easily add your own custom checks if you need to. There's an overview of VMware monitoring with PRTG here, and more details about the VMware sensors here (scroll down towards the bottom of this list).
There's a trial version of PRTG that lets you run with an unlimited number of sensors for 30 days, after which it becomes our freeware version with 100 sensors. If you only want to look at your VMware environment, and you don't have too many hosts, the 100 sensors might be enough. If you want to also look at Windows, your SAN, your switches, etc, then you'll use up the 100 sensors very quickly and will probably need one of the commercial licenses.
Just let me know if you need a hand with the trial or configuration!
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Nagios is what I have decided on.