[ale] Monitoring (Was "Todays trends")

Wed Oct 9 17:28:09 EDT 2013

I recall the Ballantine Books copy I had back in the 70s contained a blurb on the back written by JRR saying something along the lines of “Those who approve of courtesy (to a living author at least) should by this version and no other.” Which always made me think someone else was publishing his books because he’d let the copyright lapse.

I have heard discussion that Copyrights in Europe are far longer than the US and we’re getting the longer Copyrights for some things to be more congruent with them.

From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim Kinney
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 5:05 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Monitoring (Was "Todays trends")

Excellent! That is what I am looking for. did not know the history.
The tolkien family is a bit nutty. Shouldn't that book series be out of copyright by now?

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Chris Ricker <chris.ricker at gmail.com<mailto:chris.ricker at gmail.com>> wrote:
Xymon (previously hobbit) is the open source replacement / successor to Big Brother. http://xymon.sourceforge.net/

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....

On 10/9/13 1:42 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
http://communities.quest.com/community/big-brother?view=overview#/?tagSet=1217
Looks like BB is $0. It is certainly NOT open source. compiled binaries for many platforms.

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com<mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
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.

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).
I been a consumer of Zabbix and found it a better layout that nagios. An install of zabbix is soon in my future.

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Jerald Sheets <questy at gmail.com<mailto:questy at gmail.com>> wrote:

On Oct 9, 2013, at 7:45 AM, "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at water.com<mailto:JLightner at water.com>> wrote:

> So the issue wasn't Nagios - it was the folks managing it.
>
> Nagios is a great tool and we use it in Production.

I'll bite.  Nobody better to discuss with than the ALE family…

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.

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.

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)

What's the general landscape of monitoring tools and utilities in use out there?

--Jerald

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