[Gllug] Nagios vs Zabbix vs Zenoss

[Karanbir Singh]

Diego Giurgola wrote:
> Hi all. I've to decide which of this monitoring tools is good enought 
> for me. I'd like to spend my time on the most used one (which I think is 
> Nagios), but I'd like to know which of these is better for you.

I've used all three, Zenoss has the most potential of the lot - however, 
I think the developers need to focus on real product rather than just 
look and feel.

Zabbix is ok, if you have non technical people looking at the reports. 
It wont give you the flexibility of the nagios combination ( Nagios + 
NagiosExchange ). While Nagios might be hard or obscure to setup, but 
well worth the effort - specially since you can get it to do almost 
anything you like ( even use odd and wierd transports, like nrpe over 
func ).

If I had the time, and I needed to know a lot about my infrastructure - 
I'd use Nagios. If there was a deadline to lookout for, Zabbix ( 
although, as its been pointed out already - you need a mindset change 
from Nagios to get your head around Zabbix ).

Zenoss might be worth considering in a few years again. I dont think it 
does enough of what it should.

- KB
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