[xymon] Compare Xymon and Nagios

[TJ Yang]

Hi, Tinh

Nice to see you post question here.

I went through this Xymon vs Nagios evaluation exercise a few month
ago. Last evaluation was Hobbit vs BB.

Please see questions I posted to Nagio support in R1 for a clue, why
Xymon got picked over Nagios (in my case).

R1. http://support.nagios.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=442&p=1831#p1831

tj
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Ward, Martin <Martin.Ward at colt.net> wrote:
> 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.
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> 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, just
> installing the application and starting it up immediately gets you a host of
> standard system monitors like disk, memory, CPU and connectivity. Nagios is
> not so quick.
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> When it comes down to writing non-standard monitors they are as 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…
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> From: tinh.do at continental-corporation.com
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> Sent: 01 December 2010 18:40
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> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: [xymon] Compare Xymon and Nagios
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> some groups in my company start to use Nagios.
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> Has anyone used it..
> Can anyone give the feedback regarding the Nagios. Pro or Con are welcome.
> I need that information to defend my choice of Xymon.
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> Thanks
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T.J. Yang