Nice Icinga blog post about the Icinga setup at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), where Linuxfabrik handled the initial deployment and the Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins are in use.
While the scientists and consultants at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) are working to make the world a healthier place, Icinga checks the health of their IT systems.
Swiss TPH is a research institute affiliated with the University of Basel, focused on global health.
When Swiss TPH relocated to two new data centers in 2021/2022, a virtualised environment of this scale was put together:
Linuxfabrik handled the initial Icinga deployment ("set up Icinga completely on their own", quoting the Icinga article) and provided the Linux and Windows server checks through the Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins.
Four dedicated servers form the monitoring stack: Icinga, database, LibreNMS and Grafana. Modules in use include the vSphere DB module and the Business Process module.
Two particularly hard points: rebuilding network monitoring from layer 1 to layer 3 independently, and meaningfully monitoring laboratory equipment that doesn't accept an agent.
Original article on icinga.com
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