One of the things that people seem to miss, or overlook in my opinion is the cost of doing all this monitoring, and the steep learning curve you have for all of it. It's going to suck in a bunch of time at first, way more than people think, and getting it tuned so that it's not sending out false alarms is a huge task.
I've played with Nagios, and we have Solarwinds at $WORK, but neither is well done or really used outside of silos. I also played around with collectd and graphite, but found it too simplistic in terms of access control for what I/we wanted. And we have an old instance of WhatsUp running as well for another group. It's all hodge podge. We really should dedicate someone to doing this work, but we all keep getting pulled in new directions all the time. It might be easier if you're just upgrading from something and you know what you want to monitor, etc. But it's not a simple drop-in tool like some people make out. It requires commitment and discipline to use effectively. John _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
