I would agree, Zenoss was pretty easy to install and times can be fun to troubleshoot but I think it offers so much more than Nagios. I used Nagios at a previous job and it was fine but I like the layout and organization of Zenoss plus if there is a bug its fixed relatively quick were Nagios is when the devs have time to work on it. Zenoss does have a large community and the Zenpacks are really nice too because someone that doesn't have Linux knowledge can install them from the WebUI. I have some descent Linux knowledge and can seem to fix minor issues I run into and if not I pop into the forums and a lot of times someone has had the same issue and has a fix for it.
With a little work you can make the same Nagios plugins work in Zenoss which is nice because instead of relying on just Nagios you can have both in one system. I've been using Zenoss since version 2.0 and have loved the improvments that it has made in the year that I've been using it. I've used Orion from Solarwinds and yes its a nice system but extremely expensive to own, Zenoss is free if you get the Core or Community version and it can do a lot of what Orion can. When I was looking for a Network Monitoring system I looked at Orion but my company didn't want to spend the money so I dug around and found Zenoss. Ever since I haven't looked at anything else because I see the great potential that Zenoss has to offer plus it being open source allows you to make your own custom modifications with it, Orion doesn't offer this. If they implement Netflow into Zenoss that would be awesome because I love the information I can get from Netflow and being able to monitor that in Zenoss would be great. If you want a stable system then go with Nagios but if you don't mind a few bugs here and there I would go with Zenoss because it has a large amount of potential and IMHO surpasses Nagios by far. -------------------- m2f -------------------- Read this topic online here: http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?p=28329#28329 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
