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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Agreed here as well. We were using Nagios+Cacti+nrpe+snmp to monitor/graph.. but that was much more complicated than a simple switch to Xymon, and we get the same results </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Neil Franken [mailto:nfranken@theunlimited.co.za] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 06, 2010 3:33 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></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA 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><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span 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></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA>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></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA>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></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA>Ralph Mitchell<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-ZA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA>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></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA>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><br>Another big advantage is the amount of additional information you can supply on screen.<br><br>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><br>YMMV.<br><br>Regards<br><span style='color:#888888'> Vernon</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-ZA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA>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></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-ZA>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></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>