I'll throw my opinion into the mix, and I guess the best way is just to do a cut-&-paste session of previous comments.
bithajcsar wrote: > Zenoss, even after numerous updates has serious bugs. In our software > development company we call such bugs "show-stoppers". I cannot disagree with this statement. There are a couple of bugs in the software that I would consider to be rather big deals. I rant about them on occasion on these forums. Heck, I even learned Python just to try and solve some of my personal annoyances. Unfortunately I'm in sort of the same boat and don't have a lot of time to devote to debugging software. So then why am I still using Zenoss, and why did we just buy a support contract? Because I see the potential for the product. So far there hasn't been a "show-stopper" bug that I haven't been able to work around. Do they annoy me? You betcha. But is it the end of the world? Not really. If I didn't believe in the product and the direction it is headed, I would have abandoned it six months ago. daviz00 wrote: > The difference here is that Zenoss is still entering maturity. [...] You > couldnt tell it was young? Even with all the numerous signs of a maturing > project? Low version numbers, overly "enterprise" website, only a few people > in the forums for support including the founder of the company... How about > the fact that they are so friendly here? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes. ;-) But it's growing, and it's maturing. Maybe not as fast as I (or others) would like, but I think we all see the potential and are able to use the product in a day-to-day environment without (much) hassle or headache. It'll only get better. :-) daviz00 wrote: > Any programmer will find themselves in heaven with the kind of API Zendmd > provides. Holy cow, I love their API. Can't do something with the GUI? Want to get it done faster? Oh look, there's a method for that...it's plain amazing. I'm building a nice little library of zendmd scripts to do all sorts of boring admin tasks. This was a side-topic, I know, but it also shows that while the product is still young, they have built some really cool things into it from the start. And again, I only see it getting better. snarkout wrote: > I have run into more stumbling blocks using Zenoss than just about any other > FOSS NMS I have used - this is most likely due to the overall > configurability/complexity of Zenoss, [...]. The tradeoff is that Zenoss > does appear to be doing a better job and seems to be heading in a better > direction than these other projects - at least IMO/IME. I can't agree more. If I weren't bald already I think most of my hair would be gone due to Zenoss. ;-) But I've come to much the same conclusion, that most of my annoyances with the product are directly due to how flexible Zenoss is designed to be, and I have to figure out to to make it work for our environment. I love the fact that Zenoss isn't dictating how I monitor my environment, but that I tell Zenoss how to monitor my environment. snarkout wrote: > I abhor people who think that "free" is the most important part of FOSS, and > find comments like "why would I ever *pay* for software?" distasteful. Preach on, brother... At the end of the day, Zenoss frustrates me more than most other software suites (and I'm a Windows Administrator!). With that being said though, I'm just as apt to skip down the hall and relay some awesome new thing I did with Zenoss to anyone who will listen. (Ok, the skipping may be a bit of an exaggeration. ;-)) The point is, I'm definitely willing to see where the product is headed in the future. And I only see good things coming... --- seth wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) windows engineer 540.568.2912 (office) james madison university -------------------- m2f -------------------- Read this topic online here: http://community.zenoss.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=17389#17389 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
