Rough feelings so far:Nagios ( ) : +1 been around for ages +1 popular, used a lot and well respected -0 messy and disorganized -1 big and feared for its complexity -1 uglyZenoss ( ): +1 Nice web interface +1 appears a bustling community +0 Nagios plugin support +0 been around a reasonable time -1 complex interface, steep learning curve -1 rumours of complex installHyperic ( ): +0 Rumoured to be powerful (fast event processing and very scalable) -0 screenshots look a bit bland -1 Website is offputtingly corporate rather than involvingOpenNMS ( ): +0 Usable looking interface -1 Sounds a bit of a recent, early development -1 Properly Fugly website -1 XML Config filesOpsView ( ): Wrapper around Nagios +0 based on Nagios -0 based on Nagios +1 slightly better looking interface -1 Read a blog comment about it having odd limitations with Nagios plugins and other off-putting problemsZabbix ( ): +1 seems technically kind of nice, agented or agentless, can step through websites in testing, agents can run scripts +1 interface customization +0 interface looks quite tidy, supports diagrams, but people discuss it as if it was a poor interface. In case it's of any interest, I've just been reading up on (free) network monitoring software wondering which to try.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |