* Eugene Yunak <e.yu...@gmail.com> [2010-08-10 15:05]: > Definitely nagios/cacti pair or zabbix. Having used nagios for a year > or so, i would never want to get back to Tivoli. It also gives you > lots of flexibility in how you setup your monitoring, and can neatly > work with snmp as well.
anyone using nagios and neat in the same sentence without negation must also enjoy beating his head against a wall. nagios is shit. misdesigned, horrible code, and someone who obviously doesn't understand blocking semantics of sockets writing that part of the code... that said, I use it, too. and as almost every other serious user with at least a little bit of standards left I hate it. the old, trivial, mon package we used before just didn't cut it any more, had its own share of problems and wasn't fix- and extendable with reasonable effort, and there were no other options but nagios back then. and since it took us almost a year to switch over I am not looking forward to do it again. I am not even sure there is anything at least halfway good out there today. -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting
