Nagios Vs MOM

[Ray La Peyre]

Luckily for me I don't work there I am outsourced. Thanks for the reply. I
have looked into it more and have not really found a large number of useful
things that can be done with MOM that cant be done with Nagios. Nagios is
much better in the respect that it can monitor a very large amount of hosts
without the problem and expense of licenses. MOM requires a licence be
purchased for all clients as well as the server (with the exception of MOM
for workgroups which has a limit of 10 servers) MOM has a very large amount
of options to momitor but few of them are very useful

	
-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:ae at op5.se] 
Sent: Friday, 28 October 2005 9:46 AM
To: Ray La Peyre
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Vs MOM

Ray La Peyre wrote:
> Hi List
> 
>  
> 
> I have a client that has presented me with the question of "Why use Nagios
> rather than MOM (Microsoft Operations Monitor)" apart from the obvious
price
> difference I could not find much information in direct comparison to the
> two. I was wondering if anyone had any information that I could tell him
on
> what MOM does that Nagios can't (if any). MOM is obviously geared towards
a
> Microsoft Environment where nagios is much more generic but with NSClient,
> nagios can monitor a lot of important windows components but I don't know
if
> it is up to the same level (or even close) to MOM.
> 

If Nagios ever gets as good as MOM at windows monitoring, then M$ should 
shut down.

Nagios efficiently monitors hosts (all kinds, gimme an OS and I'll tell 
you if Nagios can monitor it), switches (all kinds, gimme... ekcetera), 
routers and whatever else you might have. The strength of Nagios is its 
versatility. You can't, for instance, monitor OpenVMS, Solaris or HPUX 
boxen with MOM, but you can with Nagios. If you have a "windows-only" 
policy in the network your managers are most likely idiots (windows is 
far from optimal for all kinds of servers). In that case, I feel for you 
and, if I were you, would likely quit my job.

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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