Unix® System Management Primer Plus

Monitoring Applications

This chapter has discussed at great length the various methodologies and tools used to monitor your services, but how do you put them all together into one system? Some people like to build their own systems—especially in academia. In the corporate world, however, there isn't always the time or management support to build your own service monitoring system. Fortunately, there are many quality products on the market (both commercial and free) that wrap everything together into one powerful package. The following sections look at a large-scale commercial monitoring package, and two open-source products that take different approaches to monitoring.

Writing Your Own Monitoring Tools

Smaller organizations with very little infrastructure ...