"Cost" of Nagios

[Seth Mitchell]

Yeah - use the templates and shortcuts (e.g., HOSTGROUP_NAME instead of host
names, for services), and possibly use things like merges (mail merge) to
generate the definitions for the things you can't use shortcuts for, and it
will be a snap.  This product blows all equivalent retail products out of
the water, IMHO.  If anything, the configuration requirements are lower.

-Seth

-----Original Message-----
From: Quanah Gibson-Mount [mailto:quanah at stanford.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 4:21 PM
To: nagios_list
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] "Cost" of Nagios




--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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