[Xymon] why do you use xymon?

[White, Bruce]

I use Xymon because I started using Big Brother years ago when it was
way ahead of its time.  I continue to use Xymon because it continues to
be a valuable tool and is easily extendable and extremely flexible.  

You would probably be surprised by the number of vendors who have been
amazed by the amount of data we capture and track across the wide
variety of devices on our network.  Also how easy it is to flip from
looking at temperatures and humidity in our network closets to the
number of users connecting to our ERP system throughout a given day.  On
top of all that, it finds issues and alerts the proper staff to take
action, no matter when they occur.  

We use devmon to monitor our network devices which are best designed for
monitoring via SNMP (which is where it got its start), clients to
monitor our servers, and custom scripts using a whole host of tools to
monitor all kinds of other things.    

I think the advice you got about getting xymon in and getting a demo
started right away is the best you have been given.  That is precisely
what I did at my current location.  I was able to do it because there
were no license fees.  After it was up and running, had already found
issues, and had sent out alerts when something failed, it had pretty
much proven its worth.  The  talk of other tools died quickly.
Especially when it came time to put together proposals for money from
already tight budgets.

   .....Bruce
  



 
Bruce White
Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: 1-630-671-5169 | Fax: 630-893-1648 | bewhite at fellowes.com | http://www.fellowes.com/
 
 
 
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