"Cost" of Nagios

[Jon Lyons]

Or the fact that when you first hear about a problem
from the users, it makes your entire dept look like it
doesn't know what's going on... :)

--- Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah at stanford.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> --On Wednesday, June 16, 2004 3:14 PM -0400 Robert
> Nelson 
> <rnelson at windchannel.com> wrote:
> 
> > The larger part of your calculation is going to be
> figuring out how long
> > it takes to get things in Nagios. If you have a
> contractor come out
> > there and pound on it, it might be really quick.
> If you have to do it
> > yourself in between your other tasks, it make take
> you weeks or months
> > (like me!) simply because there's so much to add,
> document, and figure
> > out parent/child relationships.
> >
> > On the benefits side, I can tell you that without
> a doubt, you will have
> > a crapload more, in quantity and quality, of
> documentation on your
> > network. Some of the time/money you dump into
> getting it set up has a
> > direct payoff because of this.
> 
> Hm... the use of templates minimizes a lot of that,
> and is quite useful.  I 
> generally contrast it to the cost of *not having
> monitoring*, which I think 
> is a lot higher. ;)
> 
> --Quanah
> 
> 
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> Quanah Gibson-Mount
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> ITSS/Shared Services
> Stanford University
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