On 2010-08-14, Toni Mueller <openbsd-m...@oeko.net> wrote: > On Fri, 13.08.2010 at 14:36:21 +0100, Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk> > wrote: >> What do people think of monit. > > Ok, I'll chime in: What do people think of Zenoss and splunk?
I haven't looked at splunk, but zenoss looks "fiddly" to install on OpenBSD, they provide a mega-tarball including tar.gz of all dependencies which they expect you to use. On OS which are fully-supported by the various projects I see some benefit from this (though I think it's still a pain), it's really annoying on OS where you really want to use packages for the dependencies which are already tested and have had various portability problems fixed. (freeswitch has a similar problem and this is one of the main reasons why there is no freeswitch port; it's even worse for zenoss as they repackage even more pointless stuff; python, rrdtool, gettext, glib, pixman, ...). I'm occasionally working on a port of icinga which looks quite interesting (forked from nagios a while ago, it's still compatible but has diverged quite a bit now - many problems have been fixed and improvements made, in particular the UI has been totally replaced). Would have been done sooner, but despite its general crappiness and the many improvements that could be made, nagios actually works surprisingly well... OpenNMS also looks pretty interesting, but unless they've worked around it by now, it doesn't work with snmpd(8) due to PR 6071.
