[Xymon] why do you use xymon?

[Benjamin P. August]

We came to Hobbit/Xymon from a NimBUS install my predecessors had set up (yuck!), and I came from a small part of a certain large now-defunct hardware and software vendor that used BB internally (until they made us use our own horrid monitoring product). When the upgrade bill came from Nimsoft in '07, I told them to blow it out their ear and I told my boss that we could do a better job for free. And so we did. 

It runs on all of the clients we've had so far, it monitors our Oracle databases without too much effort, I wrote an interface to OpenManage to pick up hardware/storage status in both Windows and Linux, and when we needed temperature monitoring, it wasn't a stretch to pull ambient temperature sensor data from the Dells into Hobbit. 

I think the phrase "everything you want, nothing you don't" applies here. 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Elizabeth Jones" <Ejones at egov.com> 
To: Xymon at xymon.com 
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 5:45:35 PM 
Subject: [Xymon] why do you use xymon? 



Would any of you mind telling me why you use xymon? I have a co-worker who is pushing hard for zenoss, and his arguments include “gui discovery tool”, “no hand editing of config files”, “it is an enterprise level monitoring system and you can buy support and bring in a consultant to set it up for you”, and the ever popular “everyone is using zenoss now”. 

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Elizabeth Jones 

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