Nagios Vs MOM

[Andreas Ericsson]

Ray La Peyre wrote:
> Hi List
> 
>  
> 
> I have a client that has presented me with the question of "Why use Nagios
> rather than MOM (Microsoft Operations Monitor)" apart from the obvious price
> difference I could not find much information in direct comparison to the
> two. I was wondering if anyone had any information that I could tell him on
> what MOM does that Nagios can't (if any). MOM is obviously geared towards a
> Microsoft Environment where nagios is much more generic but with NSClient,
> nagios can monitor a lot of important windows components but I don't know if
> it is up to the same level (or even close) to MOM.
> 

If Nagios ever gets as good as MOM at windows monitoring, then M$ should 
shut down.

Nagios efficiently monitors hosts (all kinds, gimme an OS and I'll tell 
you if Nagios can monitor it), switches (all kinds, gimme... ekcetera), 
routers and whatever else you might have. The strength of Nagios is its 
versatility. You can't, for instance, monitor OpenVMS, Solaris or HPUX 
boxen with MOM, but you can with Nagios. If you have a "windows-only" 
policy in the network your managers are most likely idiots (windows is 
far from optimal for all kinds of servers). In that case, I feel for you 
and, if I were you, would likely quit my job.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
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