On Aug 14, 2009, at 9:55 AM, Rob Cherry wrote: > Anyone hate Zabbix with a flaming passion in favour of anything else?
IMHO.... oh, who am I kidding, there's rarely anything "H" about my "O".... We hate Zabbix with a flaming passion. Here's cool features you'll love: -- If you create some aggregate graphs (e.g., "the load averages for all the web servers in my farm")... and you retire web10, that aggregate graph? Yeah, it's gone. Zabbix's attitude appears to be "nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure", and will destroy and graphs/screens which include that host in it. (At least that seems to be the experience of our folks who work more closely with maintaining our much-hated Zabbix install). -- It does NOT scale well at all... we've got about 150 hosts in it total, and the screen we've designed for our app (which has about 15 graphs on it, not terribly much), takes SO LONG to generate the graph images that -- heh, wait for it -- the Refresh-delay kicks it, and the browser ceases to care about those graphs it has spent so much time generating and has asked for a WHOLE NEW set of graphs. -- You want to do some sort of programatic creation of hosts/services/ etc. OTHER THAN via the auto-discovery method? Ha! Good luck with that. Doesn't seem to be any good means of doing so. -- Zabbix's "all or nothing" definition of "monitoring" is, for our uses, completely useless. There's no concept of warnings versus critical, or perhaps there's times when that check isn't as important as it might be at other times, and no way to squelch the messages or anything like that. Trending, you can at least claim is Zabbix's specialty, but we've just completely ripping its "monitoring and notification" aspects completely out and doing that in parallel with Nagios. _______________________________________________ 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/
