Check_MK

The Check_MK is an open source based monitoring system. It fits almost any infrastructure. Basic element the Nagios and WATO GUI, and includes various modules: the NagVis, which is responsible for displaying the network topology, a PNP4Nagios, which collects the monitored system performance data in RRD format and displays them in the form of graphs and reports. It includes a DokuWiki system, which can be a great knowledge base. The monitoring system is able to monitor the resources and services of systems on the client side agent, API or SNMP.

The main function of a monitoring system is the status checking, the dashboard-based visualization, and change-based notification.

Features of the Check_MK:

• Extensive, deep and customizable monitoring with agent, API or SNMP;
• it ensures the integrity and confidentiality;
• able to synchronize with an NTP server;
• monitoring relatively easily managed through a Web Administration Tool (WATO);
• the monitored performance data is stored in a standard RRD format. and the ability to prepare reports;
  there’s dashboard, which provides a summary presentation of the state;
• the ability to display the logical network topology;
• it combines a physically separate, but logically related service;
• if a Syslog event occurs, then automatically responds with an action, and it can be controlled from the command line;
• capable of real-time alarms with e-mail or SMS server;
• easy backup and restore;
• role-based user management, LDAP-based user authentication (including Active Directory and eDirectory), and local user authentication;
• not affect the monitoring system and the monitored systems operation;
• able to read the Nagios plugins to facilitate the eventual migration.