<div dir="ltr"><div>Excellent! That is what I am looking for. did not know the history.<br><br></div>The tolkien family is a bit nutty. Shouldn't that book series be out of copyright by now?<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Chris Ricker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris.ricker@gmail.com" target="_blank">chris.ricker@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Xymon (previously hobbit) is the open
source replacement / successor to Big Brother.
<a href="http://xymon.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://xymon.sourceforge.net/</a><br>
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It started out as a patch addon to speed up BB, back in the days
when BB was not quite free software but did provide source code.
After Quest closed the BB source (even for paid licensees such as
yours truly who were running it on hardware they refused to
provide binaries for --way to honor that license, Quest!) hobbit
evolved into its own thing and most of the developer community
around BB went with it. Then the Tolkien family came after it, so
now it's Xymon....<div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 10/9/13 1:42 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
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<div><a href="http://communities.quest.com/community/big-brother?view=overview#/?tagSet=1217" target="_blank">http://communities.quest.com/community/big-brother?view=overview#/?tagSet=1217</a><br>
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Looks like BB is $0. It is certainly NOT open source. compiled
binaries for many platforms.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Jim
Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span>
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<div>Big Brother's background color was a simple and
brilliant way to show overall health. Big Sister, the
FLOSS BB rewrite, never managed to hit critical mass
but made it to a 1.0+ release in 2006. BB is still
around after being acquired by Quest (and now Dell has
Quest it appears?) but is no longer "free". It never
was FLOSS.<br>
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Nagios configuration is convoluted. Don't like it.
_REALLY_ want some solid logic to add besides time and
pester-me counts. If this AND this but NOT this then
flag once and don't page until this followed by this
however if this AND this AND this page NOW (yeah - good
luck with that).<br>
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I been a consumer of Zabbix and found it a better layout
that nagios. An install of zabbix is soon in my future.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 8:33
AM, Jerald Sheets <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:questy@gmail.com" target="_blank">questy@gmail.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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On Oct 9, 2013, at 7:45 AM, "Lightner, Jeff" <<a href="mailto:JLightner@water.com" target="_blank">JLightner@water.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
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> So the issue wasn't Nagios - it was the folks
managing it.<br>
><br>
> Nagios is a great tool and we use it in
Production.<br>
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<br>
I'll bite. Nobody better to discuss with than the
ALE family…<br>
<br>
<br>
So, I hate Nagios. Can't express how much I
dislike the product, the layout of the alerting,
the lack of a comprehensive, easy to see and
understand dashboard with easily
managed/administered acknowledgements, mobile
accessibility, automation, escalation paging… you
name it.<br>
<br>
Now, before you freak out, I know it's all in
there, but I personally find it markedly difficult
to find all this stuff in the way Nagios has
decided to lay everything out.<br>
<br>
<br>
Is this just a "me" thing? Is it because my
earliest and most often used monitoring stuff is
from a "Big Brother" background? (BB, Hobbit,
Xymon, Foglight, Spotlight)<br>
<br>
<br>
What's the general landscape of monitoring tools
and utilities in use out there?<br>
<br>
<br>
--Jerald<br>
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other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't
fatten the dog.<br>
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