Thanks for that explanation.
I'll take a look at the Devmon lists too.
One of my concerns is 'over-monitoring' and consequently causing too much stress on the network and systems being monitored (including the monitoring server itself).
A 5-minute average interface check would be too long for my needs. Should I be concerned if I set the snmp monitoring to a 1-minute average?
We don't have many devices at the moment, but the network has potential to grow quite rapidly.
I suppose this could be a general question of 'how much monitoring is too much much'? Some would say you could never have too much, but are there any benchmarks I can use to minimize any performance hits on my network caused by this monitoring?
Mario
Greg Hubbard writes:
The devmon system is separate from Xymon -- they work as partners. Devmon can read the Xymon bb-hosts file to find directives, and it uses this information to configure itself for polling. Devmon discovers SNMP devices and monitors them according to its own set of templates. Devmon reports status to Xymon. The most recent versions of Xymon and Devmon supposedly allow data from Devmon to be graphed in Xymon displays so the two systems appear to be very integrated -- but I have not tried this myself.
Devmon does the monitoring, and it uses its own device templates to control what gets monitored for each device type. The standard template library includes a number of device types, but not all devices are equal, and it takes a while to get the hang of the devmon template approach so you can make your own templates.
The main devmon developer often participates on this list, but there are some devmon lists.
GLH
On 8/14/09, mv652 at softhome.net <mv652 at softhome.net> wrote:
Hi, Could I get a quick-and-dirty explanation regarding the Devmon implementation in Xymon 4.3.x? The way I understand it, Devmon provides SNMP capabilities to Xymon so the monitoring server can poll SNMP capable devices. How is this different to Integrating MRTF data into XYMON, for example? If I am interesting in getting bandwidth for various device interfaces, I am assuming it is best to do via Devmon rather than integrate MRTG?
Lastly, is there a readme / howto that explains devmon-xymon setup?
Thanks, Mario
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