[Gllug] Nagios vs Zabbix vs Zenoss

[Paul Richards]

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.
>
> Let's the flame starts :D
>
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I've used all of your suggestions and settled on Zabbix some time ago. 
Once you get your head around the twisty Latvian logic its actually 
pretty darn good.

The most apt description I have heard for it is that it's a technical 
monitoring tool for technical people. Its GUI whilst very functional 
isn't as pretty as say Zenoss, but you can do a whole lot more.

It is entirely database driven (MySQL/Oracle/Postgres) so adding hosts 
manually is a doddle should you need to. I haven't needed to yet. You 
can do auto discovery on criteria across network blocks for bulk adding 
of hosts.

I'd suggest installing it and giving it a go, in the next month or so 
they are about to do a major new version release that will deal with 
around 99% of my criticisms with it currently.

You may also wish to check into OpsView if you are determined to go down 
the Nagios route.
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