[ale] Monitoring (Was "Todays trends")

[Jim Kinney]

Big Brother's background color was a simple and brilliant way to show
overall health. Big Sister, the FLOSS BB rewrite, never managed to hit
critical mass but made it to a 1.0+ release in 2006. BB is still around
after being acquired by Quest (and now Dell has Quest it appears?) but is
no longer "free". It never was FLOSS.


Nagios configuration is convoluted. Don't like it. _REALLY_ want some solid
logic to add besides time and pester-me counts. If this AND this but NOT
this then flag once and don't page until this followed by this however if
this AND this AND this page NOW (yeah - good luck with that).

I been a consumer of Zabbix and found it a better layout that nagios. An
install of zabbix is soon in my future.


On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Jerald Sheets <questy at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Oct 9, 2013, at 7:45 AM, "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at water.com> wrote:
>
> > So the issue wasn't Nagios - it was the folks managing it.
> >
> > Nagios is a great tool and we use it in Production.
>
>
>
> I'll bite.  Nobody better to discuss with than the ALE family…
>
>
> So, I hate Nagios.  Can't express how much I dislike the product, the
> layout of the alerting, the lack of a comprehensive, easy to see and
> understand dashboard with easily managed/administered acknowledgements,
> mobile accessibility, automation, escalation paging… you name it.
>
> Now, before you freak out, I know it's all in there, but I personally find
> it markedly difficult to find all this stuff in the way Nagios has decided
> to lay everything out.
>
>
> Is this just a "me" thing?  Is it because my earliest and most often used
> monitoring stuff is from a "Big Brother" background?  (BB, Hobbit, Xymon,
> Foglight, Spotlight)
>
>
> What's the general landscape of monitoring tools and utilities in use out
> there?
>
>
> --Jerald
>
>
>
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