On Jul 22, 2009, at 2:10 PM, Ray Sanders wrote:
So for a large nationwide environment like ours, our ROI was pretty decent, but if you are only watching a dozen or two systems with maybe ten monitors each, Nagios would be the best bet.
I would disagree; nagios is not limited to small systems... We're currently monitoring about 8500 services on 2834 routers with nagios quite successfully and have been doing so for nearly a decade now -- we started with Netsaint. With custom scripts receiving data from our inventory management system, Nagios config generation for 99% of the hosts is completely automated with only a handful of special cases that are hand-modified as needed. Our investment, both in initial/ ongoing man-hours, hardware, etc is minimal so our ROI is decent too ;)
-- Marc
