is Nagios the right tool to monitor Weblogic ?...

[alfiaz]

Hi All,

I've been tasked with a Nagios PoC on application servers.
No disrespect, but I'm a bit puzzled with why the available community plugins offer so little information on the monitored servers, compared with commercial monitoring solutions such as, Manageengine / UpTime etc.

Is there something I'm missing here ?

Thanx,
alfiaz

[agriffin]

Nagios can be configured to monitor just about anything. Is there something in particular you think it lacks?

[alfiaz]

well I'm not sure...
started out by checking what commercial tools have to offer and found a huge difference from what the community plugins offer.
two examples:
ManageEngine - http://www.manageengine.com/products/ap ... ement.html
Up.Time - http://www.uptimesoftware.com/weblogic.php

I'm no Weblogic expert so...

please share your thoughts.

[jsmurphy]

The big difference between manage engine, nim, up.time, so on and so forth is that these are monitoring solutions and come with a large number of vendor built plugins as well as a rather hefty price tag and are often (not always) less extensible. Nagios is better described as a monitoring framework, the key difference here is that Nagios doesn't tell you what your solution should look like, you take the components that are going to be useful to you and you add them on to build your own solution. If you can't find the components you build them... and if possible share them with the community so that others don't get stuck where you did. Nagios by comparison is also free, Nagios XI is dirt cheap.

Choose Nagios if:
- Price is an important factor
- You don't mind learning the framework
- You don't mind creating your own plugins to fill in gaps others haven't

Choose an alternative if:
- You want something that will "just work"
- You don't need an extensible framework
- You can afford to do so.

Nagios has been used by automotive manufacturers to measure that the paint has been sprayed on cars correctly, it monitors military weapons and it monitors that dodgy switch my network team installed last week. It's a flexible system but like Lego you actually need to do the work and build it first.