Matthew Huff wrote:
Some of our requirements:
. Native agents for Windows 2003/2008, Linux, Linux x86_64, Solaris Sparc
and Solaris x86_64. Either binaries or source code.
. Ability to send alerts via email, pager and/or snmp
. Monitoring of OS properties like memory, disk, cpu, etc...
. Ability to extend agents with scripting to allow monitoring of custom
services
. Plug-in architecture for third-party add-ons
. Reliable Architecture
. Reasonable user interface
. Non-blocking polling
. Active Project (New Releases on regular basis and have existed for a
reasonable period)
You probably have the list of the most commonly used. Each has good and
bad points. A few of them I believe are limited on using agents and
supporting external scripts. Several are considered Nagios on steroids,
using a Nagios core wrappered in a bunch of other OSS. Several, like
Zenoss are particular about the primarily monitoring system (though
agents might run on any OS).
Jack
