Monitoring the Health of Your Penguin?

codepunk asks; "I work for a large manufacturing firm in the midwest, working on a migration from Windows to Linux in the data center. We just completed installation of two full Oracle RAC 9i clusters. We are also in the process of configuring two clusters for our manufacturing floor's Linux desktop roll out. The machines that make up our data center are all Compaq Proliant Series machines. In order to facilitate hardware maintenance we are in bad need of a monitoring solution. HP offers Insight Manager as well as the Compaq Health Agents. This solution would seem like a natural but the drivers installed by these solutions are binary only. We have never managed to get these to work correctly and are really concerned about the stability of our systems with these modules loaded. We are not opposed to buying hardware in the future from a vendor that provides a more open solution. We are also not opposed to buying a open third party solution. Slashdot, what do you use for Linux system hardware monitoring?"

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[bellings]

That's the problem with Ask Slashdot -- you get answers from Slashdot readers.

I have no idea why anyone would post a link to freeware PHP projects to display pretty graphs of SNMP data when the question was about Linux Kernel Modules to monitor Firmware.

Probably because there are hundreds of shitty free linux web tools to display pretty graphs of your network performance, and nearly zero linux tools for hardware monitoring. That should tell you something about the type of projects linux is currently being used for, and the type of projects you should use linux for.

I'm not saying that linux doesn't have a niche, and that it fills that niche very well. But outside that, it starts to fall down. True high-availability, single-point-of-failure servers like the original poster is using is one of those places where linux falls, unfortunately.