<div dir="ltr">+1 zabbix. Zabbix has a steeper learning curve tho. Especially when you want to do complex triggers. <div><br></div><div>What I really like the most about zabbix is that it will graph anything easily. Also you can monitor anything using (bash, perl, whatever) one liners. No need to create a wrapper scripts. Its also makes setting up relationships or dependencies a snap. It also fully functioning SOAP API. I dont like that it will disable a item if it fails a check. </div>
<div><br></div><div>ALL SA's should know nagios. Like rsync its a big stepping stone.</div><div><br></div><div>If you have to use nagios, opsview is a good alternative.<br></div><div><br></div><div>-Erik-</div><div><div>
<br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Beddingfield, Allen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:allen@ua.edu" target="_blank">allen@ua.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm totally with you on Nagios. We switched to Zabbix about a year ago, and I couldn't be happier with it. Best of all - it is also free.<br>
<a href="http://www.zabbix.com" target="_blank">http://www.zabbix.com</a><br>
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Allen B.<br>
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Allen Beddingfield<br>
Systems Engineer<br>
The University of Alabama<br>
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On Oct 9, 2013, at 7:45 AM, "Lightner, Jeff" <<a href="mailto:JLightner@water.com">JLightner@water.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> So the issue wasn't Nagios - it was the folks managing it.<br>
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> Nagios is a great tool and we use it in Production.<br>
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I'll bite. Nobody better to discuss with than the ALE family…<br>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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What's the general landscape of monitoring tools and utilities in use out there?<br>
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--Jerald<br>
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