Nagios Vs. Big Brother

[Bob Eckhardt]

I am in the process of moving off BB right now after being on it for 5
years.
I ditto most what was said here on the forum about BB verses NAGIOS.

If you are using BB and something goes weird and you have 100+ boxes being
checked on the other
side of a switch/router that goes down and you have ping turned off, be
ready for 1000+ purple pages
at 3:00aM . CRAZY. The granularity of a nagios setup is awesome. And the
"plugin" idea is awesome.
If something can be monitored via a shell script, c program, perl, nagios
can be set up to use it.

The only gripe I do have so far with nagios is the "plugin timed out" pages.
Be it network load
or whatever the reason is. Haven't found out for sure yet.


120+ devices/servers and 672 services being checked, and I am adding more
every day as I
remove them from BB, been at it for over a month now all by myself, been no
small task BUT WORTH IT!

I would do it all over again.....

Bob




-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Jeremy T.
Bouse
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 1:09 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Vs. Big Brother


	Well, speaking as an administrator that when I took over the
office network that had Big Brother as the monitoring software and
quickly moved to Nagios (actually moved when it was still Netsaint). The
biggest reason for the move was the high level of false positives on
outagea. Big Brother has no concept of a "planned outage" which caused
countless alerts to be sent out for numerous services being monitored on
hosts during a planned outage. Big Brother had no "wiggle room" for
small network congestion which lead to more false positives when there
was a burp between monitoring host and monitored host.

	Overall Nagios has way more going for it than Big Brother.
Besides the ability to schedule outages and configurability to only send
alerts after X amount of monitoring failures, you then have to look at
the system as a whole. Nagios has much more reporting capability from
the historical trendlines. Also the ability to have configured
escalation routines and service/host dependencies.

	For us it was a no brainer...

	Regards,
	Jeremy

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 12:45:33PM -0700, Brent Ryan wrote:
> I know there is some obvious answers to this, but is there any
> documentation of pros/cons for these monitoring applications?
>
> Why is nagios better then Big Brother?
>
>
> Brent
>


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