Comparison of Server Availability Monitoring Tools

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Report Layout
Introduction:........................................................................................................................... 2
Comparison:........................................................................................................................... 2
(1) Nagios Core:................................................................................................................. 2
(2) Ganglia:......................................................................................................................... 5
(3) Spiceworks:................................................................................................................... 8
(4) CollectD:...................................................................................................................... 11
(5) Cacti:........................................................................................................................... 13
(6) Icinga:.......................................................................................................................... 16
(7) Zabbix:........................................................................................................................ 21
(8) OpenNMS:................................................................................................................... 24
(9) WhatsUp Gold:............................................................................................................ 26
Evaluation:........................................................................................................................... 29
Identification and Analysis:...................................................................................................29
Propose:............................................................................................................................... 29
Conclusion:.......................................................................................................................... 29
References:.......................................................................................................................... 30

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Introduction:
Monitoring the availability of the servers is very much important concept for the
organizations as this is one of the core for their day to day operations. Though this is very
much important still the organizations faces various of issues as there is a metrics related
challenges which includes availability of the services, hardware and applications [1]. It is also
very much important for the organization to understand which operations requires which
resources and how much resource is required by those processes.
Thus in this paper various of server availability monitoring tools is leveraged to check
the performance in terms of CPU monitoring, Process Monitoring, Disk Usage, Resource
Monitoring, Bandwidth Monitoring and Overall availability. Also, the server availability
monitoring architecture and solution will be presented to avoid data vulnerability.
Comparison:
In this case nine types of server availability monitoring tools will be discussed which
are the following:
 Nagios Core
 Ganglia
 CollectD
 Spiceworks
 Cacti
 Zabbbix
 Icinga
 OpenNMS
 WhatsUp Gold
(1) Nagios Core:
This is an open serving checking tool. This tool is connected with the entire server for
the monitoring purpose.

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(Figure 1: Disk Usage of Nagios Core)
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Disk usage is determined in the above screenshot of Nagios core.
(Figure 2: Bandwidth Monitoring of Nagios Core)
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Both the read and write bandwidth has been delivered through the screenshot and
for that Nagios Core has been selected.

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(Figure 3: Resource Monitoring of Nagios Core)
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On the above screenshot resources of the system has been identified and monitored.
(Figure 4: Process Monitoring of Nagios Core)
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On the above screenshot process monitoring has been done. Network status and
processes has been shared through the screenshot.
(Figure 5: CPU Monitoring of Nagios Core)
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The above image shows CPU monitoring of the system through Nagios Core.
(2) Ganglia:
Ganglia is also an observing programming of the server. Various levelled plan has
been utilised in this case [7].

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(Figure 6: Disk Usage of Ganglia)
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Read and write operation has been shown on the above screenshot regarding disk
usage of Ganglia.

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(Figure 7: CPU Monitoring of Ganglia)
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Above screenshot provides CPU monitoring of the Ganglia. Graphs has been also
provided in this case.
(Figure 8: Bandwidth Monitoring of Ganglia)
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Bandwidth monitoring has been shown in the above screenshot. Two services has
been selected in this case.