[xymon] difference between xymon and nagios

[Ralph Mitchell]

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.

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...  :)

Ralph Mitchell


On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Vernon Everett <everett.vernon at gmail.com>wrote:

> For me, the biggest advantage of Xymon over Nagios, is the graphs.
> They "just work" straight out of the box, and it's really easy to implement
> new ones.
> Nagios might tell you a disk is full, but cannot tell you how it got full.
> Did it fill up in the last half hour, or has it taken the last 3 months to
> hit the threshold?
> Your reaction to these 2 very similar scenarios would be very different.
>
> Another big advantage is the amount of additional information you can
> supply on screen.
>
> 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.
> However, Xymon can do more, so it is my monitoring tool of choice.
>
> YMMV.
>
> Regards
>     Vernon
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 12:39 AM, akshar bhosale <akshar.bhosale at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> we want to know the difference between xymon and nagios monitoring tool
>> and is it that xymon is preffered over nagois ? if so why?
>>
>>
>
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