To be clear, I wasn't disparaging your creds, especially since I have no idea what they are - I was responding to your own statement that you don't know linux. I'm more or less in the opposite boat - I know linux and unix fairly well, but outside of "using" windows, I'm lost on it. Good job on the CCNA and the progress on the CCNP - fun stuff...
Obviously I understand your frustration and your point - I posted earlier in the thread about my own occasional frustration. I also have a hard time groking their revenue model (and this is from a person who pays for red hat support). Basically, IMO, part of the FOSS dynamic is that you end up having to do a good chunk of the dirty work yourself in many cases to offset the lack of cost. This aspect of things is more or less SOP in the FOSS world, IME. I've tried all of the free options I could find - Cacti, OpenNMS, NMIS, Nagios come to mind immediately. Nagios is an excellent piece of software IMO, and I use it for monitoring all of our serevers, but isn't really appropriate for network monitoring (again, IMO). The others had glaring issues worse than any I've experienced with Zenoss - lack of reporting options, hundreds of false positives, etc. Do I wish that I could just click a button and make all the stuff I need done work? Hell yes I do - most of the work I've put into getting zenoss running has been on my own time since I'm not usually blessed with enough free time at work to just dick around on R&D boxen, and so far no one has offered to buy me HPOV. Though I admit to being at least a partial geek and have a slightly sick side that enjoys hacking around on zenoss late at night, more often than not what I'm doing is banging my head against a wall trying to figure out how to make something that seems like it should be simple work. That said, and like I said before, I think that zenoss is the best of breed, currently, and is heading in a good direction. I think it's a good solution that has some weaknesses (many of which you've pointed out), none of which have been absolute showstoppers in my case. -------------------- m2f -------------------- Read this topic online here: http://community.zenoss.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=17696#17696 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
