Nagios Vs MOM

[Emmett Keyser]

I apologize to the list for this but I just want to say something....

I don't think he was asking for opinions on his work environment. Not
all of us are so lucky to have the ideal work environment. I for one
thought it was a good question; something I've wondered about myself.
I've been following this list for about four months now and think it's
a great source of information. But do we really need opinions of the
people we work for/with? Windows isn't optimal or perfect or whatever
- WE GET IT. The question had to do with MOM vs. Nagios in Windows
environments. I think it's a valid question. I don't think it should
elicit a response that his boss(es) are idiots or that he should quit
his job.

On 10/27/05, Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se> wrote:
> 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.
>
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