[olug] Nagios still the coolness?

Curtis LaMasters curtislamasters at gmail.com
Tue Dec 21 19:54:26 UTC 2010


I'm a chester and use opsview which uses nagios as its core.

Curtis LaMasters
On Dec 21, 2010 1:51 PM, "Steve Madel" <sjmadel at gmail.com> wrote:
> OpenNMS works pretty good and is pretty easy to reconfigure as long as
> you do your research and set it up correctly from the get go. You can
> also pay for a support contract, and they will come out and get it set
> up with you and teach you the ins and outs. I think it took us about
> a month or so of real worktime to get it up and running to a point
> where we understood what it was doing, and how it all worked together.
> Also, a lot of the actual developers/admins of the software itself
> hang out and answer questions on their IRC channel. (#opennms on
> freenode)
>
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Kevin <sharpestmarble at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The question is how much time does it take to get configured to a point
>> that, when you have to change something, you don't dread it? I think that
>> Nations isn't too bad in that regard. At the only place where we deployed
>> monitoring on any scale also deployed Zenoss. I did like that it was very
>> easy to add a new host; just give it the new host's IP address and Zenoss
>> will do a lot, needing you just to tell it what groups it's a member of.
But
>> beyond that, we didn't know how it worked; it was too much of a black
box.
>> You punched in some numbers and it did its thing.
>> On Dec 21, 2010 1:05 PM, "Steve Madel" <sjmadel at gmail.com> wrote:
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