[PVE-User] Monitoring tools for VMs

[Robert Fantini]

mon  is good to run on the host. we use to check if containers and other
systems are up using ping .  in addition we check that mail services are
working in containers. as if mail is down you won't get any monit notices -
at least the way we've set things up.

We'e only used monit for a few months. so our config is still evolving.

If you want I can post our  mon config .

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Bruce B <bruceb444 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks. Amazing info. I am already using monit. I have considered using
> Mmonit as well. But there are a few commercial programs out there that are
> really fancy and really depict a sort of a monitoring center where it fits
> very nicely across multiple monitors with lots of graphs and
> bars....(something like you see in movies, radars, etc... :-) okay not that
> much). It just becomes easier for less-techy people to know if something is
> not right as it should be.
>
> But I guess the best solution would one that doesn't require any extra
> libraries and programs to be installed on each node which really complicates
> things.
>
>
> Thanks again
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Robert Fantini <robertfantini at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> we use  mon  on the proxmox host  and monit everywhere . check the links
>> below for a lot of info.  they are cli tools and are easy to setup.   Mon
>> and Monit work great for us.
>>
>> see
>> aptitude show mon
>> aptitude show  monit
>>
>> and these links:
>> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.monitoring.mon.general
>>
>> mon mail list
>>
>>
>> http://blogs.umass.edu/choogend/2007/09/12/mon-%E2%80%94-the-ultimate-minimalist-monitoring-tool/
>>
>>     https://mon.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
>>     http://mon.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mon/mon-contrib/monitors/
>>
>>     * http://mmonit.com/
>>     * http://mmonit.com/wiki/Monit/ConfigurationExamples
>>     * http://www.bamweb.nl/computer/linux/246-monitoring-with-monit
>>     * http://www.howtoforge.com/server_monitoring_monit_munin_p2
>>     *
>> http://nyrodev.info/index.php/2009/03/28/248-monitoring-monit-munin-serveur-web-sur-debian-lenny
>>     * http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Monit_Patterns
>>     *
>> http://www.iredmail.org/forum/topic565-faq-how-to-monitor-mail-related-service-with-monit.html
>>
>> [edit]
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Bruce B <bruceb444 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Guys,
>>>
>>> I am wondering if there are specific monitoring tools that you use and
>>> prefer to monitor VM statuses. Something cool like this:
>>>
>>> http://www.humbuglabs.org/
>>>
>>> I am mainly intrested to monitor CentOS OSs but there could be the
>>> occasional Ubuntu based as well.
>>>
>>> I would prefer this monitoring tool to be an OpenVZ template as well so
>>> it's already setup but if not I can try to install.
>>>
>>> Please list you favorites.
>>>
>>> ***P.S. I am looking to install a few monitors to give me 24/7 Operation
>>> Center feedback.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
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