Smruti wrote:
nagios is one of the best monitoring tool.
Heard the same too. But I want to know how does it compared to HP OpenView,
BMC PM(formerly Patrol), Big Brother and Zabbix.
Nagios used to be a good way to do things, a few years back it was also
recommended quite widely. But to be honest unless you have lots and lots
of time and dont mind getting into messy issues and handling all sorts
of corner issues that just keep creeping into the systems including
'internet weather', your best options these days are to look at projects
like opennms and zenoss. Zabbix has some traction as well, but its just
not anywhere near opennms while addressing the same sort of mindset /
admin crowd.
Also, two very solid tools to consider these days :
http://flapjack-project.com/ and the long time large-installation
favourite http://ganglia.info/
Hope this helps, and I also hope this saves you many hours of slaving
with nagios in frustration :)
- KB
Note: I have setup and run quite a few monitoring setups, including a
nagios one that handles 18 different DC's and 400 odd devices. So its
not that I dont 'get' nagios. I do. Which is why I think its a waste of
space for new installs these days.
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