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 I thought that the Zabbix Agent package may be out of date but it did list it 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 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org > > >
