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Storage Methods Side-by-Side
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As you read in the last issue, Frank Burough, Associate Director of Bioinformatics for Elixir Pharmaceuticals, wrote in with two questions about Linux tools. His second request is to find out more about system monitoring software. Larry Karnis, the president of Application Enhancements Inc., a Linux-focused consultancy in the Toronto area, writes: A number of excellent network monitoring tools are available, ranging from simple to fairly complex and feature-rich. A great entry-level tool is MRTG (the Multi-Router Traffic Grapher). This tool uses SNMP to periodically poll network devices. It then records usage information and saves it to a local database. MRTG includes a simple Web interface that lets you view usage trends on each device. This tool does not offer alarms or higher-end management capabilities. Two excellent tools for general network, server and service monitoring are Nagios and BigBrother. Nagios is entirely free; BigBrother is free for noncommercial use. (The professional version of BigBrother provides a smoother, simpler installation, telephone-alert support and other features that simplify installation and administration.) BigBrother and Nagios offer many similar features, including: Nagios' propaganda page states that Verizon uses its software to monitor its network while BigBrother claims Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, and IBM as customers. Got a question? Send it to baselinetools@ziffdavis.com. If we publish it, we'll set you up with some free Baseline paraphernalia.
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