Part of the intrigue for me was a nice consolidated interface for everything. 
With Nagios, you still really need Cacti to make it fully functional. Plus, the 
zabbix-agent allows for an even wider scope of monitoring versus plain old 
network/ping/snmp checks. I've tried the Nagios/Cacti route and just didn't 
like it. 

----- "Curtis LaMasters" wrote: 
> Just curious, what does Zabbix do that Nagios does not? 
> 
Curtis LaMasters 
> http://www.curtis-lamasters.com 
> http://www.builtnetworks.com 
> 
> 
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Nathan Eisenberg < [email protected] > 
wrote: 
> 

Tim, 
> 
> Zabbix does support SNMP checks and TCP/IP via zabbix-server originated pings 
> and port checks. 
> 



> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Tim Nelson [mailto: [email protected] ] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 10:45 AM 
> To: [email protected] 
> Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Zabbix Agent package on 1.2.1 
> 
> Thank you all for the responses! 
> 
> I thought that the Zabbix Agent package may be out of date but it did list it 
> as being 'up to par' with version 1.2.1 of pfSense in the packages page. 
> Apparently it is incorrect. Well, back to the drawing board. <Checking to see 
> if Zabbix supports plain TCP/UDP port monitoring, content checking, and SNMP 
> polling...> 
> 
> <OT> 
> I've been using JFFNMS for quite some time as a monitoring solution. It works 
> well as long as you don't mind running PHP4 and MySQL4 on an older box. The 
> latest version has some serious issues (Google "jffnms admin structure not 
> found") which haven't been fixed and the project is nearly dead. It's time to 
> move on... 
> </OT> 
> 
> Tim Nelson 
> Systems/Network Support 
> Rockbochs Inc. 
> (218)727-4332 x105 
> 
> ----- "Nathan Eisenberg" < [email protected] > wrote: 
> 
> > Throwing my hat in the ring here - we have several zabbix servers 
> > deployed in production. It is very good; it is easy to set it up to 
> > get emails on disk failures, raid rebuilds, individual fan failures; 
> > pretty much anything you might want to hear about. 
> > 
> > Plus having anything you else you can imagine on a graph is pretty 
> > nice. 
> > 
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: Paul Mansfield [mailto: [email protected] ] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 10:34 AM 
> > To: [email protected] 
> > Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Zabbix Agent package on 1.2.1 
> > 
> > Tim Nelson wrote: 
> > > I've recently tried installing the Zabbix Agent package on a fresh 
> > 1.2.1 installation and it appears to have some 'issues'. Namely, one 
> > issue. It doesn't install at all. The output from the installation 
> > session: 
> > 
> > we too would be interested in this, as we're trialling zabbix in 
> > place 
> > of cacti and nagios 
> > 
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