Re: [Astlinux-users] Idea for new AstLinux package: Hobbit Monitor Client

[Paul D. <pl...@gm...>]

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> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:41:08 -0000
> From: "Sebastian Auriol" <sp...@sy...>
> Subject: [Astlinux-users] Idea for new AstLinux package: Hobbit
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> Hi,
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> It would be useful to have a system for monitoring AstLinux servers. In
> particular I'd like the client part of Hobbit Monitor:
> http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/
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> Also useful would probably be SNMP (but that wouldn't have to be
> implemented
> at the same time):
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> Handling SNMP Traps with Hobbit
> http://cerebro.victoriacollege.edu/hobbit-trap.html
> Or
> Devmon: an SNMP device monitor.
> http://devmon.sourceforge.net/
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> Of course I understand if this is too much to support.
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> Kind regards,
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> Sebastian
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Sebastian-

After reading this and the responses from Kristian and Darrick- I'm curious-
what parameters are you interested in monitoring for astlinux?  There's a
fair workup of monitoring Asterisk in general using Nagios (my personal
fave- and it does have notifications built in by default, plus is infinitely
extensible) on the voip-info wiki (
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+monitoring).  As Astlinux is really a
nicely wrapped package of Asterisk plus relevant tools, and everyone seems
to like one monitor or another (no one mentioned HP OpenView or IBM
Director/Tivoli, two of the most commercially accepted packages), it seems
like it wouldn't make much sense to wrap any one monitoring package in with
any specific asterisk build, much less astlinux, which I've seen most
frequently in the SMB/SOHO space.

But perhaps I'm missing something- what metrics do you want to pull from
astlinux that will help?  I usually pull channels in use, disk utilization,
and system load- most of which doesn't require anything more than snmp mibs,
plus some astmanager work.

-pbd