On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 07:02:39PM +0200, Oliver Thieke wrote: > Hi out there at the screens ! > > I want to set up a monitoring of a bunch of Solaris server > using one of the OpenSource Monitoring Tools available (MON, > BigSister, Nagios). I browsed already some articles and the > online docu of the 3 packages. Nonetheless I cannot decide > yet which one to choose. MON and Nagios (formely known as > NetSaint) seem to be most promising. > It would be nice to hear about your experiences with those > two tools. > Which one would you choose ?
The company was using Netsaint when I started working for them. When a moment came to upgrade Netsaint I found mon, tried it and never went back to Netsaint. > Why ? Netsaint configuration is horrible compared to clean and nice text file generated with m4 in mon Netsaint requires software to be installed on a client side, it consumes resources of a client. Mon requires nothing on the client side. > Any traps to be aware of ? No that I am aware of. > > MON seems to be easier to install and configure. Furthermore > it's all written in PERL, a language I'm quite familiar with. > On the other hand the Web-GUI of Nagios looks nicer and > provides more and better arranged info. It's a matter of preference. To me, netsaint looks bloated with it's GUIs. (But I must admit, I am not a GUI guy, I come from command line school) mon.cgi provides just enough of information and control that I need. > But Nagios seems to be much harder to install (must compile) > and to configure. > > Finally I MUST write some custom monitors (checks) and this > seems to be easier (and better documented) in MON. Very true. When I needed to monitor login to a web site, it took me less than an hour to write my own monitor. I enjoy using mon very much and just want to thank Jim and all contributors for a great product! -- Konstantin 'Kastus' Shchuka Unix System Administrator ePocrates Inc. tel 650.227.1786 fax 650.592.6995 _______________________________________________ Mon mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/mon
