Rivermuse First Impressions
First of all, I don't come from a Tivoli, OpenView background , I have never touched the commercial network monitoring tools and I`m not a network guy . I'm an infrastructure guy whith a focus on Open Source platforms so I have been using Nagios and more recently Zabbix, Zenoss etc for the better part of the last 2 decades in large to very large environments.
My syslogs go to a central (r)syslog)-ng) server where I frequently abuse grep. So If my experience with RiverMuse is not what it should be , there's work to be done on both sides ;)
So When looking at my Rivermuse setup (in a VirtualBox FC9 setup) my first tought is "Those Rivermuse folks will really need to explain me what their tool is all about .. as to me it's just a fancy colortail integrated with snmp traps."
Hopefully it's not just that and it all becomes clear in a couple of days .. Apart from the FC9 annoyancy there is the frequent Unresponsive script errors.
And those I fear will be the real killer problems for RiverMuse
On the other hand, RiverMuse does good job in displaying the actual events in your network and following up the actions that one ... after a while you'll get a good overview of the actual issues as opposed to all the relevant events
I've dropped RiverMuse into my blade test setup (more on that subject later) and I`ll be keeping a look on what I can learn from it but the dreaded Unresponsive scripts that I know so well from Bamboo really need to be fixed :)
Well time will tell :)
Comments
#1 Ed Savage : Firefox & the RiverMuse Desktop
Hi Kris,
According to the documentation at
http://www.rivermuse.org/display/RIVERMUSE/RiverMuse+installation
Without knowing the full details of your setup I can't offer much more advice at this time, but I suspect an old version of Firefox might be the root cause of your problem (sadly I've seen similar issues visiting other java script intensive sites such as gmail.com with earlier versions of firefox as well)
The simplest way of upgrading firefox on Fedora 9 is to use the Yum package manager. From the command line, as root, it'd look something like this...
# yum upgrade firefox
Hope this helps!
Ed
#2 Kris Buytaert : Firefox 3.5
You might have noted that I`m already on F11 with RiverMuse in an FC9 virtual machine. So my browser is in F11.
and my F11 is up to date..
There's not much upgrading firefox upgrading to be done.. :(
When I` run into it again I`ll create a Jira ticket .
#3 Anonymous : Hi Kris, According to the
Hi Kris,
According to the documentation at
http://www.rivermuse.org/display/RIVERMUSE/RiverMuse+installation
Without knowing the full details of your setup I can't offer much more advice at this time, but I suspect an old version of Firefox might be the root cause of your problem (sadly I've seen similar issues visiting other java script intensive sites such as gmail.com with earlier versions of firefox as well)
The simplest way of upgrading firefox on Fedora 9 is to use the Yum package manager. From the command line, as root, it'd look something like this...
# yum upgrade firefox
Hope this helps!
Ed
#4 Phil Blades : Good feedback - RiverMuse
Hi Kris, good to see that you are getting into the initial release of RiverMuse Core, I know you are already in correspondence with Fred our CTO.
I hope you have had a chance to look through our documentation (http://www.rivermuse.org/display/RIVERMUSE/RiverMuse+documentation), which I think is pretty comprehensive (we welcome all coments on documentation also).
Regarding the specific script issue - if you could post this as a problem in the support forum (or if you have registered as a member of the community you can raise a Jira ticket directly).
As you probably know by now we have also now released builds of RiverMuse Core for RHEL5 and FC10.
Kind regards
Phil