First, see the community FAQ to get some ideas: http://community.zenoss.org/trac-zenpacks/wiki/CommunityFAQGeneral?version=88
Splunk does log management, not monitoring as such as I understand it. Zenoss doesn't charge for Community Zenpacks, only Enterprise ones and official Zenoss support. So you could meet your requests with the Community Zenpacks for Exchange, MSSQL or MySQL(you didn't specify). If those meet your needs, Zenoss is free. You might also want to consider if you can learn to extend each solution - Zenoss Core is pretty much GPL and you can extend it as needed, and with command datasources, templates and such, it's not really programming that's needed, but you can do that too with your own scripts as datasources, or full access to the source code. Also, remember that via command data sources, Zenoss can use Nagios plugins and Cactii plugins in the free Core product. I hope you've asked this on the Splunk forum as well, as I'd like to hear the comparison. -- James Pulver Information Technology Area Supervisor LEPP Computer Group Cornell University tlyczko wrote, On 8/5/2009 4:08 PM: > We don't have a lot of servers, though several are VMware ESX hosts with > several VMs apiece. Nothing super high I/O. Apps include SharePoint, SQL, > Exchange, domain controller, etc. etc. > > Could someone(s) please comment on Splunk vs. Zenoss for server monitoring -- > both hardware and software?? > > How difficult would it be to monitor Exchange and SQL, for example?? > > Two differences I know so far: > 1) Splunk charges for alerts, Zenoss does not. > 2) Zenoss charges for Exchange/SQL/VMware monitoring, I can't tell or know if > Splunk would adequately monitor these for me. > > Thank you, Tom > > > > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > Read this topic online here: > http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?p=37680#37680 > > -------------------- 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
