I’ve been working on setting up a monitoring solution for my home network. \u00a0In the past, I had used Cacti but never really got the hang of it. \u00a0The layout of it was hard to follow and it didn’t have a good way to easily monitor all the components. \u00a0It was ok, but wasn’t what I was looking for.<\/p>\n
At work we use Zabbix. \u00a0It’s a very\u00a0capable\u00a0solution to monitoring my home network and I like it. \u00a0My only reservation is that I would like experience with more solutions than what I use at work. \u00a0This would be a hobby project, so I want to learn and not just rehash what I do at work.<\/p>\n
So, when I reimaged my servers over Christmas, I changed my monitoring solution to Nagios Core. \u00a0There were many reviews of it being enterprise grade like Zabbix or Cacti. \u00a0And while many said it would be more difficult to set up, they mentioned that it would be bulletproof once set up.<\/p>\n
I will admit, it was a pain to set up initially. \u00a0I spent many an hour at work during down time SSH’ing home and editing config files and running tests. \u00a0Thus far, I’ve set up one of the servers (Palpatine), some functions on the primary router (Luke), the two wireless access points, the modem, and tests to my personal website and simple up\/down tests on some major websites. \u00a0I’m hoping to set up monitoring on the other server (Vader), the bandwidth utilization on the router and one of the switches (Porkins). \u00a0I’m also looking to\u00a0implement\u00a0graphing of many functions using the nagiosgraph plugin.<\/p>\n
I’m on the fence about setting up monitoring on my desktop, mobile devices, or any of the VMs I’ve created.<\/p>\n
At the moment, I don’t use the VMs much and thus by monitoring them I would be generating error notifications of being down much of the time. \u00a0I will do it eventually because from a learning standpoint I would get used to working with SNMP on various OS’s.<\/p>\n
As to the various mobile devices, they would create many error notifications that it is offline. \u00a0I think it is best to not monitor them. \u00a0I think it is best not to try to monitor the Xbox or the TV either =D<\/p>\n
With my desktop, it runs 24x7x365 and thus I wouldn’t get offline notifications. \u00a0The issue with it is that I have both Windows and Linux on it and switch back and forth. \u00a0I don’t believe that I would be able to accurately monitor it due to the fact that it would show up in Nagios as two different computers. \u00a0There may be a way to associate the records together, but I’m not entirely sure how to do this. \u00a0So, maybe at a later date after some research \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n