Server Monitoring - A replacement for Nagios?

Nigel Jones dev at nigelj.com
Thu Jul 31 04:37:27 UTC 2008


David Lutterkort wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 14:59 +1200, Nigel Jones wrote:
>   
>> Okay, so while this was intended to be a primary discussion point for 
>> tomorrows Infrastructure meeting we had a little bit of discussion first 
>> in #fedora-admin, and then in #fedora-meeting regarding Zabbix, a tool 
>> like Nagios that I begun to setup for testing this week.
>>     
>
> There was an interesting talk at OLS comparing Nagios, Zabbix, Zenoss,
> and Hyperic[1] - the upshot was that none of them is a clear frontrunner
> (how's that for being helpful ?)
>
> David
>
> [1] http://www.krisbuytaert.be/presentations/MonitoringShootOut.odp
>   
That covered a lot of the exact same things that I'd been thinking 
(especially in terms of pros/cons etc).

Looking ahead 1.6 does seem to add a large number of the missing links, 
and it's due out in September, so plenty of time for us to start getting 
configs perfect etc :)

- Nigel




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