Recommended IT Dashboard?
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What is an IT dashboard? What do you want this dashboard to do?
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I've used Nagios and it works well. I know @scottalanmiller and @dafyre use Zabbix.
When I get a chance I'm going to try Icinga, it looks promising.
The nice thing about nagios is people make plugins for almost everything. You can monitor a ton of stuff with it (this may be true for others as well).
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IT dashboard like these: https://blog.dataloop.io/2015/09/01/dashboard-examples-ops-dashboards/
We'd just like to have it show us our bandwidth usage throughout our different offices, give us alerts if a server can't be connected to, we'd also like something with a phone app so we can monitor and get notifications remotely. Sounds like fun trying to setup something like this! (aside from my ever growing number of tickets)I've heard Nagios is an absolute pain to setup, though it is free so there's that
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I'm happy with Zabbix but going to try it with grafana soon to make nicer looking monitor dashboards
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@kamidon said:
IT dashboard like these: https://blog.dataloop.io/2015/09/01/dashboard-examples-ops-dashboards/
We'd just like to have it show us our bandwidth usage throughout our different offices, give us alerts if a server can't be connected to, we'd also like something with a phone app so we can monitor and get notifications remotely. Sounds like fun trying to setup something like this! (aside from my ever growing number of tickets)I've heard Nagios is an absolute pain to setup, though it is free so there's that
If you pay for it, it's very easy to use. Nagios XI is really simple to set up and get running.
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Zabbix and Grafana are very nice. You'll want ELK for logs, too. You can send capacity info to ELK too.
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@scottalanmiller OOoooooh ok, We'll check both out
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@johnhooks Oh really? Well we'll definitely give it a try. Thanks John!
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I used the FAN version of Nagios and had a customized dashboard. If you check out my project on SW it shows a couple of the dashboards I had made but it's so flexible you can do whatever you want with it.
http://community.spiceworks.com/people/tonystahl/projects/nagios-install
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We use OpManager
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@lhatsynot said:
I used the FAN version of Nagios and had a customized dashboard. If you check out my project on SW it shows a couple of the dashboards I had made but it's so flexible you can do whatever you want with it.
http://community.spiceworks.com/people/tonystahl/projects/nagios-install
Does FAN also support taking in log files from other devices? I'd like to get something like that going but I need it to take in our firewall logs and everything else.
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@MattSpeller said:
Does FAN also support taking in log files from other devices? I'd like to get something like that going but I need it to take in our firewall logs and everything else.
That's what ELK is for.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@MattSpeller said:
Does FAN also support taking in log files from other devices? I'd like to get something like that going but I need it to take in our firewall logs and everything else.
That's what ELK is for.
Sigh, was hoping there was something more straight forward
Ah well, it'd be a good project for me.
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@MattSpeller said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@MattSpeller said:
Does FAN also support taking in log files from other devices? I'd like to get something like that going but I need it to take in our firewall logs and everything else.
That's what ELK is for.
Sigh, was hoping there was something more straight forward
Ah well, it'd be a good project for me.
It's not that bad.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@MattSpeller said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@MattSpeller said:
Does FAN also support taking in log files from other devices? I'd like to get something like that going but I need it to take in our firewall logs and everything else.
That's what ELK is for.
Sigh, was hoping there was something more straight forward
Ah well, it'd be a good project for me.
It's not that bad.
Agreed, put the clients in whatever templates you have setup and you just need to remember to add new stuff to the server. Simple, fast, easy. Speaking of which, I realized the Zentyal client is not on my latest template... time to update that.
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FAN is just a linux server with Nagios, Centreon, and Nagvis installed so you could add in whatever other package you need I would guess as long as its all compatible. Nagvis is where I designed my dashboards and I'm sure it can pull info from anywhere. FAN is just a precompiled collection of software that is supposed to be easy to set up.
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I can already tell, my boss is leaning towards PTRG because it's so "the most mainstream one, it's not cheap though."
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PRTG is great but I never used it past the 100 free sensors. Does it take in the log files for you?
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@kamidon said:
I can already tell, my boss is leaning towards PTRG because it's so "the most mainstream one, it's not cheap though."
Does anyone have experience or know of anyone who has used PTRG?PRTG is mainstream? I don't think anything is as mainstream as Nagios. PRTG seems, to me, to be behind Nagios, Zabbix and Zenoss as far as being mainstream.
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PRTG is "mainstream" because it's easy to set up and they have had a big marketing push lately. But I don't feel it's as customizeable as Nagios
