[CentOS] Migrating away from Nagios

[lhecking at users.sourceforge.net]

> As Jane's paper makes clear, Nagios less the networking tool, and more the
> extensible way to monitor specific systems and applications. If hand editing
> configuration files scares you, it's not for you. But anything that's trying
> to go fully GUI these days goes XML. And if hand editing configuration files
> seems to you - like to me - the perfect way to precisely control vital
> system daemons, then XML is a distinct disadvantage.
 
 I'm quite happy using nagios and zenoss alongside. While I didn't read the
 nagios book, creating (bits of) config files is easily scripted and can
 make a big difference along with the use of host and service groups.

 Zenoss is quite trigger-happy and doesn't handle connectivity problems
 very well. Nagios does a better job here out of the box (i.e. it backs off
 and tries again), and if zenoss can be tuned to work the same way, it's not
 obvious. The UI is a really bad design with a steep learning curve IMHO.

 Zenoss community support is pretty good, although I have often managed to
 find a solution myself after digging into it.



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