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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Xymon =Ease of use, lightweight and easy to customize. Some of
the other tools are a little bit overkill. Nagios is a second choice for me. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Ralph Mitchell
[mailto:ralphmitchell@gmail.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> 06 September 2010 08:25 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [xymon] difference between xymon and nagios<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I like the graphs too, especially when trying to sell
management on hardware upgrades. I also like that it's really easy to
forward reports from a remote client to the server. It seems like you
have to jump through some hoops to get Nagios to do that.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On the other hand, at my present employer there are
externally imposed requirements that mean I can only use things that come with
the SuSE distributions, which pretty much means Nagios. I eventually gave
up on Nagios NSCA when it stopped working for no apparent reason (ports were
open, connections would open and close, but no data was sent). I replaced
it with a script that uses curl to post to a php script on a webserver, so now
I don't even need to justify opening ports for new installations... I
imagine the same method would work for Xymon, if anyone's interested...
:)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Ralph Mitchell<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Vernon Everett <<a
href="mailto:everett.vernon@gmail.com">everett.vernon@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>For me, the biggest advantage of Xymon over Nagios, is the
graphs.<br>
They "just work" straight out of the box, and it's really easy to
implement new ones.<br>
Nagios might tell you a disk is full, but cannot tell you how it got full.<br>
Did it fill up in the last half hour, or has it taken the last 3 months to hit
the threshold?<br>
Your reaction to these 2 very similar scenarios would be very different.<br>
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Another big advantage is the amount of additional information you can supply on
screen.<br>
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Nagios is a good tool, I will not knock it, and in the absense of Xymon, it
would probably be the next best thing for me.<br>
However, Xymon can do more, so it is my monitoring tool of choice.<br>
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YMMV.<br>
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Regards<br>
<span style='color:#888888'> Vernon</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 12:39 AM, akshar bhosale <<a
href="mailto:akshar.bhosale@gmail.com" target="_blank">akshar.bhosale@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Hi,<br>
we want to know the difference between xymon and nagios monitoring tool and is
it that xymon is preffered over nagois ? if so why?<o:p></o:p></p>
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