[Xymon] Why Xymon?

[Mark Felder]

On 2014-06-04 07:20, Gore, David W (David) wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> We are being asked "Why Xymon?". We have some answers but I was hoping
> someone else may have been more eloquent and articulate than myself in
> defending the use of Xymon. Perhaps you could share your wisdom?
> 

If you have 1000 servers that are all identical and all need the exact 
same services monitored you will find that Nagios, Zabbix, etc are very 
well fit for this task. It is very easy to define monitoring parameters, 
apply that to a group, and add all your servers to this group.

If you have 1000 servers and they all have unique monitoring 
requirements you will find yourself tearing our your hair in frustration 
trying to set them up on Nagios, Zabbic, etc. Especially if you're using 
Zabbix you'll quickly need to replace your mouse as it will run out of 
clicks just about the time you are diagnosed with carpal tunnel.

Xymon is quite possibly the most flexible and easy to manage monitoring 
solution I've seen so far. It often gets overlooked or chided because it 
doesn't have a fancy web interface with the latest HTML5 and node.js and 
whatever else the kids these days think they need to spice up their text 
documents, but it scales very well and won't let you down.

And for those that do have 1000 servers which are all identical -- the 
Xymon syntax is simple enough you could easily automate hosts.cfg and 
analysis.cfg entries if needed.