At 11:16 AM 2/23/2006 +0100, you wrote:
>Nagios sucks pretty hard compared with Solarwinds....
Gotta reply here, Solarwinds is a very good product
when it comes to monitoring networking kit like routers and
switches. When it comes to Windows servers, about all you
get is memory, cpu, and disk space. Also, it's licensing
is pretty severe, on a per-device basis. If I monitor all
48 ports on a 48-port switch that's 48 of the 500 licenses.
Given that my network alone is 13 class-C's on the public
side and quite a bit more on the private side, I hit that
license limit on what people consider "critical" boxen
quite rapidly. My ATM OC3 alone on the core router has
over 50 sub-interfaces, as an example.
I liked SolarWinds, and will still use it until the
license expires, but it's not very versatile when it comes
to Windows boxes. Nagios has the features I'm after save for
one: I need co-workers who've never seen anything without a
Windows gui be able to maintain it, so far I've none with any
linux knowledge, which limits my situation a great deal.
<sigh!> There are people who've never seen a
non-windowed interface in the business world. I find that
unsettling somehow...
Dan "Gentoo-2.6.12-r6" Sorenson
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