[nycbug-talk] zenoss monitoring soft

[David Lawson]

We've tested ZenOSS for a while, hoping to be able to replace Nagios  
with something that's prettier, a bit more featureful, and written in  
Python (I think ZenOSS is a Zope app, but I don't remember offhand),  
but, unfortunately, the conclusion we came to was that it's far too  
immature to consider in any kind of real production role.  Last time  
I looked, a few months ago, the installation process involved a CVS  
checkout and took me most of an afternoon to beat all the pieces into  
building, and most of the traffic on the list is installation/setup  
problems, probably because very few people are using it heavily  
enough to be uncovering other issues.  I think it's a really cool  
project, but I've got it on my "Check back in a year" list at the  
moment.

--Dave
On Oct 2, 2006, at 4:53 PM, max wrote:

> Hello,
> Just saw this on osnews: www.zenoss.com - enterprise level open  
> source network/host/equipment monitoring software.
> Looks really cool.. Prettier than nagios anyway : )
> Anyone ever used this?
>
>
> Funny part, theres a jobs section on their site, and they seem like  
> they are prepared to pay alot of money to coders.. Not sure how I  
> feel about that, they are saying up to 100k/yr for 3 different  
> positions.. Almost sounds like the ultimate wet dream - making  
> serious bucks off open source software : P
>
> _______________________________________________
> % NYC*BUG talk mailing list
> http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
> %Be sure to check out our Jobs and NYCBUG-announce lists
> %We meet the first Wednesday of the month
>