alright my apologies... for some reason my google searches didn't return half of what I found when actually searching through the list archives, where sure enough, this question has been asked before and discussed.
my bad :) needless to say I feel pretty confident mon is the right choice for what I want to do (with a little bit of work)... ----- Original Message ----- From: Joubin Moshrefzadeh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, June 1, 2004 10:16 am Subject: mon or nagios? > Here's my dilemma: > > I need a tool to monitor our network (switches and routers, and > some servers). What I'm most interested in is downtime for the > various devices. This downtime/history needs to have a couple of > features: > > A) I want to be able to look back and do searches like what devices > were down during time period x, and why (i.e. have some sort of > comments). - this leads me to look for something which stores > events in some kind of database, hence my previous posts asking if > mon has a database back end. > > B) I want to be able to have some kind of graphical graphical > display/summary of the downtime, so I can print it out or post it > on a web-page. > > Now, I've looked into mon and there seems to be workarounds to it > that will sort of fill the above requirements. But I also came > across Nagios and am wondering if anyone on this list has worked > with that and can comment on how the two compare (in general, and > with respect to my requirements). > > Thanks in advance! > Joubin > > _______________________________________________ > mon mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/mon > _______________________________________________ mon mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/mon
