Monitors on Solaris (Nagios, MON) - which one 2 choose

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

The configuration of Nagios does seem a bit overwhemling at first glance.
But once you understand the goals and interrelationships, it starts to make
perfect sense.  And as soon as you understand how to create a
host/service/whatever template, populating defitions for new
hosts/services/whatever becomes quite straightforward.

In fact, you *can* write custom monitors (what is termed "plugin" in Nagios)
in Perl.  Or in C.  Or in sh/csh/ksh/bash.  Or in Python, if that's your
cuppa tea.  Or or or.

I'm not sure what difficulty you're having while compiling Nagios.
(Granted, I'm running Nagios itself on Linux, but I had virtually no
problems compiling the plugins or NRPE under Solaris8.)

As far as documentation, check this link:

  http://www.nagios.org/docs/

Be aware that this is only current as of version 1.0.  Upon installing
Nagios (and properly configuring your Apache server (assuming you're using
Apache)), you shouldn't have any difficulty accessing the included docs with
your web browser (from your Nagios server).  Current version is 1.0b5.

Honestly, I've never looked at MON, so take what I say with a grain of salt.
If you can find the MON mailing list, try getting some feedback from that
list.

Hope this helps.

jc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oliver Thieke [mailto:thieke at tagesspiegel.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 12:05 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Monitors on Solaris (Nagios, MON) - 
> which one 2
> choose
> 
> 
> Hi out there at the screens !
> 
> I want to set up a monitoring of a bunch of Solaris server
> using one of the OpenSource Monitoring Tools available (MON,
> BigSister, Nagios).  I browsed already some articles and the
> online docu of the 3 packages.  Nonetheless I cannot decide
> yet which one to choose.  MON and Nagios (formely known as
> NetSaint) seem to be most promising.
> It would be nice to hear about your experiences with those
> two tools.
> Which one would you choose ?
> Why ?
> Any traps to be aware of ?
> 
> MON seems to be easier to install and configure. Furthermore
> it's all written in PERL, a language I'm quite familiar with.
> On the other hand the Web-GUI of Nagios looks nicer and
> provides more and better arranged info.
> But Nagios seems to be much harder to install (must compile)
> and to configure.
> 
> Finally I MUST write some custom monitors (checks) and this
> seems to be easier (and better documented) in MON.
> 
> In Nagios I followed the link in the online docu and ended
> in Nirwana (some sourceforge page, no docu on it :-(  ).
> 
> Thanx for your help in advance
> 
> Oliver
> 
> 
> 
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