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color:#1F497D'>Nagios was designed as a daemon to monitor itself on its own
server. It relies on Nagios extensions like nrpe to transfer data back from
remote servers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Configuration is extremely complicated in Nagios as compared to
Xymon. You can get a Xymon server up and running much more quickly than a
Nagios server because the Xymon client does so much of the work for you out of
the box. By the same token, getting a Xymon client monitored is very simple,
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easy as each other although at the end of the day, as mentioned by Johan, Xymon
can send large packets of data back, Nagios currently can't…<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"'> tinh.do@continental-corporation.com
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<b>Sent:</b> 01 December 2010 18:40<br>
<b>To:</b> xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [xymon] Compare Xymon and Nagios<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>some
groups in my company start to use Nagios.</span> <br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Has anyone used
it.. </span><br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Can anyone give
the feedback regarding the Nagios. Pro or Con are welcome.</span> <br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I need that
information to defend my choice of Xymon.</span> <br>
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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thanks</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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