[ale] Monitoring (Was "Todays trends")

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Wed Oct 9 13:42:01 EDT 2013


http://communities.quest.com/community/big-brother?view=overview#/?tagSet=1217

Looks like BB is $0. It is certainly NOT open source. compiled binaries for
many platforms.


On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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*Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain
at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail.
It won't fatten the dog.
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http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
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