On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 12:24:41PM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 06/19/2010 09:39 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > > It is very responsive. in forums, mailing lists, bugzilla, etc. > > > > I can offer some insight into this. > > We recently moved a 150 node network from cacti / nagios / monit to > Zabbix; Its been an exceptional mixed bag. The API is extremely basic, > and does not work as documented - a fact that the developers are aware > of but dont seem keen on moving it forward. Which has the affect that > everything on the management side ends up being point and click on a web > interface ~ massive waste of time and counter productive. > Care to talk a bit more about this? What do you need more? Just trying to understand the limitations.. > Not being able > to version control the config changes brings back memories of 1990's! > Secondly, there are very fundamental issues in zabbix, like not being > able to run counters for high throughput network interfaces. > Wasn't the 64bit counter fixed/added already? -- Pasi > And not > being very efficient with its data store ( 150 machines of ours are > generating 230MB of data per day. We are expecting to turn the year with > over 130GB of data in the mysql db. At which point we go back into only > storing trend data. Then there is the manic process of creating active > tests and inter machine or location dependencies. > > Just to be clear - I'm not saying its a bad system; its usable and easy > to deploy. There are places where it will fit in well,specially if you > have a small client load ( maybe 40 machine instances or less ). If you > don't like running client side agents, pass on zabbix. > > btw, we considered moving to zabbix for *.centos.org as well and did an > evaluation in Apr 2009 and it just did not scale up for us. On the other > hand the Fedora infrastructure guys are running it. And from what I > hear, they are quite happy with things. > > - KB > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos