UNIX® Fault Management: A Guide for System Administration

Distinguishing Monitoring Frameworks

We have selected a variety of frameworks to discuss in this chapter. Each has different strengths and weaknesses. Describing all the available products would be difficult, but this chapter should give you insight into the capabilities you should expect from any product that you choose to evaluate. This chapter is meant to give you a very high-level overview of features; later chapters go into more detail on product differences.

For each product, we describe its breadth of monitored components, general monitoring features and capabilities, ease of setup, approach to extensibility (developer's kits), notification flexibility, and diagnostic capability. These attributes are generally described in this opening ...