>> Has anyone tried Nimsoft Monitoring? It's included at Soft Layer >> which must mean a free license. > > No. IBM has a general strategy to "suck you in" > so caveat emptor...... You really wan to install > IBM binaries on any machine? (Think NSA).
Nevermind! >> It looks like a substitute for Nagios. > > Nagios has been under numerous stresses for > quite some time, for a variety of reasons, imho. > Forking, Borking, and Porking out is what I see > of Nagios; ymmv. I didn't realize that. > jffnms is well written, modular and quite responsive > to the individual's (organization's) needs, imho. > All in source code form. > > Last time I checked, there was a new (recent) ebuild > for jffnms. Patches are easy to apply and I think > (Gentoo) folks are starting to use jffnms much more. > > Check it out, most are happy with it, and find it > easy (particulary with SNMP 1,2.3) to install and extend. It looks great, thank you for the recommendation. Have you used munin? If so, do you think jffnms is a substitute or compliment to that package? - Grant
