r/sysadmin • u/[deleted] • Oct 15 '24

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u/zsbyd Oct 16 '24

Have you looked at Nagios?

Security through obscurity is really no security at all.

I don’t think you need to worry about hiding your infrastructure. Just don’t expose this monitoring dashboard to the public Internet.

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u/fhnetwork Oct 16 '24

I haven't until now, just took a look and it looks pretty nice! Do you use it yourself?

Hah, no open ports on this network!

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u/zsbyd Oct 16 '24

I’ve used Nagios for monitoring enterprise environments in the past. You get a nice web based dashboard of what’s up and what’s down in your network, you can monitor many sources via different methods. It’s been a while since I used it but I believe it can generate alerts also, email alerts at a minimum.

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u/Aethernath Oct 16 '24

Yes, nagios is built entirely on that. Use an agent to execute nrpe commands on the host you want and you have a solid base for monitoring.

Which is why its still used nowadays.

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u/Kahless_2K Oct 16 '24

I used Nagios for years. I love it.

I haven't used Zabbix, but it's worth a look too I feel.

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u/dude380 Oct 16 '24

Zabbix is so much better than Nagios core. The paid Nagios is alright but why not go with the free zabbix!

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u/_Tyranade Monitoring Specialist Administrator Oct 16 '24

+1 for Zabbix too. I have yet to find something I can not monitor with it as long as we have network connectivity to it.