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Trend Monitoring Suites

By andy
Published on June 22nd, 2007
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I hate cacti. Sorry guys, there are lots of things that are good about it, and those things are that if you want to monitor just switch/router interface stats, via snmp, and that’s *it*, its very easy. When you want to plot technical data that you source through something other than snmp, working [...]

Common Event Expression.

By andy
Published on May 29th, 2007
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I am getting quite excited about some of the material I have been reading on Common Event Expression (pdf).  CEE is a desire to standardise the way that events are described.  I can see this being of significant advantage to sysadmins who need to produce large scale monitoring systems.
We already all use syslog-ng or rsyslogd [...]