Yes, I also decided to use Zenoss with 1.1 and on through 2.2.4 now. It does a superset of Nagios. What I was expressing is that Zenoss has real bugs, and can be a little finicky to tune.
I'e found that if you get it set up, and leave it alone, it's solid, but anytime you add new devices, you've got to give youself a week or so to re-tune, and configure the events etc for those devices, and during that period instability can happen. -- James Pulver Information Technology Area Supervisor LEPP Computer Group Cornell University Sartuche24 wrote, On 11/26/2008 9:44 AM: > 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 Zeno ss > 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 _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
