Thanks for the reply.
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 14:21 -0500, Chet Luther wrote: > On 2/6/07, Allen Sanabria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I currently work for CBS. > > I'm in a battle between the systems Architect and myself. > > The battle is what monitoring tool to use. > > > > I want to bring ZenOSS in. he wants to bring in Ganglia! > > We are going to be monitoring I think close to 20 web cluster and > > other servers which come to about 5K servers/switches/routers/...etc. > > > > He says ganglia is better suited for us because ganglia is always > > broadcasting its info to the central server which means no delays in > > grabbing important info. Where as polling for snmp based on a certain > > time interval he says is inefficient! > > > > Can you think of any argument on why we should use ZenoSS? > > He says zope/xmlrpc is bloated which it is but not a deal breaker. > > > > His only major concern is that ZenOSS wont be able to scale! > > Ganglia was designed for a single purpose, cluster monitoring. Using > it as a general NMS is next to useless. It only supports *nix > variants, some poorly. You can't monitor routers/switches with it. If > this is all your management cares about, use Ganglia. It was expressly > designed for you. > > Zenoss is a general NMS, and therefore is infinitely more flexible. > You get full-fledged event management with it, including customizable > alert notifications. You can collect data passively (without polling) > from SNMP traps, syslogs, Windows event logs or XML-RPC. You can > actively collect absolutely anything, but SNMP, SSH , WMI, TCP and > ping are included out of the box. You also get auto discovery and > inventory management. All of this without even requiring an agent on > the device to be monitored. > > Zenoss will scale, but it will definitely take more resources to do so > than Ganglia. For the scale of your deployment, you'll need one big > (quad proc, 4GB RAM) box for your central Zenoss (MySQL/ZODB) and one > powerful (dual proc, 2GB RAM) box per cluster. This isn't a de-facto > requirement, but should work well based on my experiences. > > In the end, Ganglia and Zenoss can't and shouldn't be compared to each other. > _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
