Capacity Planning & Graphs

[shandman]

Greetings.

I am a new user to this community, but hope to be fairly active going forward. I'm a solutions architect at the company I work for, and we have already made the decision to move to Nagios for alerting purposes, which we are rolling out. I also have the responsibility of Capacity Planning and have used another product for years. I'm considering going with just Nagios for this also, and getting rid of the other product to save $$.

My question is:

Is there a set of performance graphs that would be more meaningful to a capacity planner, such as CPU Utilization (1-100%), Memory Utilization, Disk I/O & Utilization %, Network Interface traffic, etc. I know this is certainly do-able, but as a new user to Nagios, and being somewhat of a hack as far as programming goes, I find myself coming to you folks.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Chris

[slansing]

Yes as a matter of fact this is all available, if the checks you are running return performance data as most do then you will have a whole suite of graphing tools availible, such as the Graph Explorer, Pnp4nagios, and an actual capacity planning report which looks at past trends and plots where what you are checking will be in the future. "The last one is a Enterprise Edition feature."

[shandman]

Excellent!

Thank you. We are in the process of purchasing.

Thanks again.

chris

[slansing]

Sounds good! We will always be here to help answer questions!