comparison

[Andrew Lillie]

George,

With all due respect, I'd suggest that you read through the information 
available on the nagios website (http://www.nagios.org) before sending 
such a huge list of questions to the mailing list.  I believe that many 
of your questions are even answered on the main "about" page 
(http://www.nagios.org/about.php).
I'm not trying to bust your chops or give you the idea that the Nagios 
user community is hostile.  Its just that I think you'll probably be 
able to find the answers to your questions in a much quicker fashion if 
you take a look online for them.
As a gesture of goodwill, however, please let me know any remaining 
question you have after having perused the Nagios site.  I'm not going 
to claim to be an expert, but I believe I should be able to answer most 
of what you're asking.

Thanks,
Andrew


Yates, George D, GVSOL wrote:
> More comparison needed. It is possible for Nagios to perform the 
> following if configured?
>  
> Performance Management
> -Gather and store performance statistics for servers and network devices
> -Provide a searchable database of statistics with a report generator 
> capability
> -Standard MIBs that are integrated into the tool
>  
> Other Management Features
> -Capability to integrate custom scripts that perform oracle SQL queries, 
> process checks into a common alarm display
> -Integrate trouble ticket and asset records with server and network 
> monitoring features
>  
> User Interface
> -Store and retrieve resolved alarms in a searchable database
> -Reformatting and display of complex alarms for special use
> -Provide an interface to control what aspects of the platform individual 
> users/user groups can access
> -Ability for users to launch scripts used for system management 
> monitoring/control functions (graphing SNMP traffic, etc)
>  
> George
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] *On Behalf Of *Yates, 
> George D, GVSOL
> *Sent:* Monday, January 10, 2005 1:23 PM
> *To:* nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* [Nagios-users] comparison
> 
> I'm a system engineer at a firm that is looking at its current system 
> management platform and is looking for alternatives. I was considering 
> Nagios but what to compare it to the features that our current system 
> provide. Could you tell me if Nagios can provide the following for us.
>  
> Network Monitoring/Alarm Features:
> - Ability to discover and store all IP addresses within the system using 
> fully qualified DNS names
> - Ability to detect if any IP address is down to generate a management 
> alarm.  Detect when a downed IP is restored to service.
> - Ability to use (MIBs) Management Information Base to capture key 
> statistics
> - Alarm generation based on MIB threshold statistics
> - Tools to manage MIBs (MIB browser) and make config changes.
> - Graphical interface to organize alarms status indicators
> - Alarm correlation to manage event floods
>  
> Sever Monitoring/Management Features
> - Monitor any number of logfiles on a server for error codes/patter matching
> - Detection of utilization threshold events for file systems, memory and CPU
> - Monitor a configurable list of software apps for running status
> - Tools to allow system admin to efficiently change any of the 
> monitoring config files on a large number of servers
> - Generate alarms for any condition threshold that is exceeded. Alarms 
> are sent to a single user display.
> - Automatically invoke scripts when selected condition threshold 
> conditions are met
> - Server monitoring by intelligent agents, only alarms are sent to 
> central server (bandwidth, alarm persistence and reliability benefit)
>  
> If you could tell me, out of those bullets, which ones Nagios can 
> perform or can't?
>  
> regards,
>  
> Mr. Yates
>  
> George D. Yates
> Systems Engineer
> 443-259-8127
> gdyates at ems.att.com
>  


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