I've evaluated each of those, several times. My conclusion at the end of the day was that Zabbix was the way to go - and like I said, I have multiple Zabbix servers in production monitoring Windows, Debian, Redhat, Gentoo, OpenBSD, Xen, firewalls, switches, and sensors. I needed to be able to watch everything - from the fan speed on my Windows servers to the free swap space on evaluation servers across the internet.
As to why I selected it over nagios and cacti, the reality was that at the end of the day, I felt those tools were not flexible enough for the wide variety of systems and configurations I needed to monitor. This is certainly not to say that your evaluation is in any way wrong; it may simply not be a good fit for your environment, and everyone needs to make that determination for themselves. But that's why we took these jobs - there are often lots of right answers. :) Cheers, Nathan Eisenberg -----Original Message----- From: Tim Nelson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 11:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Zabbix Agent package on 1.2.1 That may be my conclusion as well. Luckily, I'm in the test/R&D phase and not looking to go production tomorrow with it. Off the top of my head, I still have OpenNMS, Zenoss, Groundwork, and Hyperic on my list of candidates. Tim Nelson Systems/Network Support Rockbochs Inc. (218)727-4332 x105 ----- "Gary Buckmaster" <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there anyone here who is actually using Zabbix in production and > monitoring FreeBSD boxes with it? I know it looks like a shiny toy, > but > I'm telling you that the reality is far less. The monitoring is > limited > at best for linux, and almost completely unusable without major > customization for FreeBSD. I agree that having a nice centralized > monitoring system to use with pfSense would be nice, but our extensive > > experience evaluating Zabbix led us to the conclusion that it's not > ready for prime time. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
