On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 9:21 PM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
Ivan Levchenko wrote:
I'm already using cacti, but its not very usable, especially the notifications (or lack of them) and either i didn't find a way, or cacti cannot monitor services (http, smtp, others....)
Nagios is for alerts and notifications, Cacti is for graphing trends. While either can be forced into the other role, each is best at it does natively.
True, but i'm not into installing agents.. just lazy about it probably.. i know that snmp supports everything that I need, and I just do not want to install something that requires an agent, when it can be done without it...