On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:23 PM, James Keating <[email protected]> wrote: > I know you said running the software on BSD/Linux is a requirement, but > if you are willing to break that rule you can run Orion NPM (APM too) > from Solarwinds <http://www.solarwinds.com/>. This monitoring product > is hands down one of the greatest monitoring applications I have seen. > I plan on implementing it in the upcoming months; if our budget doesn't > change *crosses fingers*. The product combines all the things that > Nagios, Cacti and Smokeping do, into one sweet little application. It > also allows for TONS of customization and oodles of options. This is > certainly the GOLD standard to which I compare most monitoring apps now.
I hate Orion with the passion of 100,000,000,000 white hot suns. The alerting is painful, the interface is unreliable, the web interface is in flux (when it works), their "Application Monitoring" is new and bolted on from a separate company they bought, and they have no concept of dependencies for monitoring and alerting, bulk updates/add/edits for nodes is nearly impossible, and it will beat on your SQL server a bunch. Additionally, the support is not great (they blew up our system on two different instances trying to do upgrades) and it's incredibly expensive. What's worse, is that SolarWinds' other monitoring product, ipMonior, addresses most of those issues at half the cost. mon+cacti, or nagios+pnp are my current suggestions other then "run away from Orion" -n -- ------------------------------------------- nathan hruby <[email protected]> metaphysically wrinkle-free ------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
