[Xymon] why do you use xymon?

[Milan Kocian]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 08:45:35PM -0400, Jones, Elizabeth wrote:
> 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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hi,

1) performance! We use xymon for three years. Now we have over 18000 sensors.
We check over 5000 network services every minute. All incidents are send to
the postgresql. In postgresql is now over 1000000 incidents. And all this is
running on core2duo (2 cores) with 4GB ram. On this machine runs webapp
to handle incidents in postgresql. Unbelievable :-).
Nagios with the same hw configuration didn't work with one third of the sensors.
On other side we don't use rrd/graphical function of xymon.
Version 4.2.3.

2) easy customization, code is easy to read ... (thanks Henrik :-))

3) easy writing of the new sensors. You can send more info in sensor message
(include hints how to solve the issue :-))

4) etc, etc...

Best regards,

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Milan Kocian