On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 10:02, 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 ? > Why ? > Any traps to be 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. > 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. > > Thanx for your help in advance > > Oliver >
Looks like you've already summed it up pretty nicely. A co-worker of mine is messing with Nagios right now, and has been dismayed to find that it's got HTML hard-coded into some of the C modules. This makes it pretty difficult to modify the output screens (for instance, to link to MRTG from a Nagios screen). -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... _______________________________________________ Mon mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/mon