[Gllug] Suggestion about Network Monitoring software - Open source/Free

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:26:32AM +0100, - Tethys wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Iain M Conochie <iain at shihad.org> wrote:
> 
> > Also IMHO do not touch nagios with a barge pole :)
> 
> Seconded. It's amazingly capable, but the web interface is ugly and
> wasteful of screen real estate, and the whole thing is a nightmare to
> configure. To the point where it's essentially unconfigurable for mere
> mortals.

+1, unfortunately. I use it, but it takes time.

Has anyone used nagios 3, is it better ?

If anyone wants it I have written a different transport mechanism, takes the place
of NSCA - but uses email as a transport ... it means that you can monitor
machines that are difficult to get through to (ie behind firewalls).
I must find the time to push this up to the nagios people.

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