<div dir="ltr"><div><a href="http://communities.quest.com/community/big-brother?view=overview#/?tagSet=1217">http://communities.quest.com/community/big-brother?view=overview#/?tagSet=1217</a><br><br></div>Looks like BB is $0. It is certainly NOT open source. compiled binaries for many platforms.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><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> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><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>
<br><br></div>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>
<br></div>I been a consumer of Zabbix and found it a better layout that nagios. An install of zabbix is soon in my future.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><br><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>
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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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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-- <br><div dir="ltr">-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br><i><i><i><i><br></i></i></i></i>Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br><i><i><i><i><br></i></i></i></i>Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.<br>
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain<br><i><i><i><i><br><a href="http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/</a><br></i></i></i></i></div>
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