[nycbug-talk] favourite monitoring tools

[Jerry B. Altzman]

On 11/22/2005 7:40 PM, Dru wrote:
> Experiences good/bad with Bigsister, Nagios and Zabbix also appreciated. 
> The client needs to manage just over 100 systems, a mix of routers, 
> switches and servers.

I've used nagios extensively for a network of that size, and it worked 
fine. It has a whole slew of options. Like all monitoring systems, 
though, it needs to be tuned well to keep out the false positives.

One thing I did not like about it was that it was not really amenable to 
making itself HA -- you couldn't have redundant monitoring servers 
easily, without just duplicating nagios (and having everything alert you 
twice...)

> Dru

//jbaltz
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