copmparison question

[Andreas Ericsson]

Calvin Crutchfield wrote:
> Hello all.
> 
> This is my first post and I need your help. I realize of course this is a
> nagios group, and since I want to go with nagios I wanted your slant on
> things.
> 
> I need to install some monitoring software.  It is all Solaris and
> apporximately 400 hosts.
> 
> Simple things first first.  Host Status, then maybe moving to  cpu, disk
> space things of that nature.
> 
> I have read the docs and understand some time needs to be invested before I
> am up and running and I have significant experience with monitoring using
> Tivoli, PERL and SiteScope mostly
> 
> My question is, what will nagios do for me and what will it not.  I have to
> prepare a talking paper comparing...
> 

Basically anything you ask of it. Since it's driven by external programs 
to read status of various devices in the network you can easily hack up 
programs that do what you want them to do. With a bit of googling and 
polite asking on nagiosplug-help you can usually find someone else has 
already written it for you.

Big Brother (and sister) works the same way. Plugins for both can 
usually be used with nagios with little or no modification.

One of nagios' newest and most promising features is the ability to load 
external modules. Once the rough edges of the module api has been 
polished a bit so documentation can kick in, module-hacking will most 
likely take off like a Saturn V on steroids. At least one project has 
already managed to produce useful results with the existing api 
(nagiosdb on sourceforge). If you have able hands on deck, there's 
really no limit to what the design lets you do.

> Nagios
> Big Brother (sister too??)
> SiteScope
> Custom PERL  (Don't want to reinvent the wheel)
> Any others???
> 
> Thanks for your help...
> 
> calvin
> 
> 
> 
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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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