[Xymon] Why Xymon?

[Jamison Maxwell]

Extensibility.

I have yet to see a monitoring challenge that I've not been able to meet with Xymon, either through an extension that somebody else has cooked up, or through my own.  The 'XY' in Xymon really means anything, and that's what I've found it good to be for, monitoring anything.  Whenever the conversation comes up, I say that Nagios, Zabbix, Solarwinds, What's up, SCOM, or any other monitoring application is merely that, an application, but Xymon is different.  It's a monitoring platform.  You begin with the basics and there are no limits to what it can do.  I've got extensions that check for a file backup in three lines of bash, try doing that with one of the other platforms.  I've got PowerShell and VB extensions for the Windows guys, python, bash, and Perl extensions for the Unix guys, and SNMP for the network guys.  They all plug in together and work nicely.  This amalgamation would, to be best of my knowledge, not be possible with any other monitoring system.  Plus, easily accessible performance trending graphs, and I've got an incredible affinity for graphs.

In addition, the only other major opponent I've seen in the monitoring arena is Nagios, but Nagios folds at over 2000 tests per interval, while Xymon doesn't even sweat.  Seriously, I've got a Xymon box with over 10,000 tests that runs a load of .01 with 1 vCPU and a gig of RAM.  You can't beat that.




Jamison Maxwell
Jamison at newasterisk.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Adam Goryachev
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2014 7:00 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Why Xymon?


> Gore, David W (David) wrote:
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>> You guys should know that is not how it works with management types?
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>> Or to share what I know so far, they would respond because our 
>> platform has a dedicated off shore support team and an on shore 
>> development team.  And I could argue cost and they may say but our 
>> platform supports many more teams outside of your own.
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>> Norbert made some good points on security that I can use in our 
>> favor.  Thank you Norbert.
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>> And thank you Mark and Galen for providing feedback.
>>

How about the dedicated (and free) development team that you have with Xymon? Or the fact that your own dedicated off short support team and on shore dev team can work on xymon to build/extend/improve/customise xymon however you require. If you need your own car, do you start also have to re-engineer the wheel, and the tyre, etc? or do you just take one that someone else has made, and then apply your customisations (assuming your company is not in the monitoring business, in which case, your business probably demands enough USP's that you will need to build your own from scratch).

In fact, that is probably the best thing to remember, most IT departments exist to support "the business", they aren't supposed to be inventing, building, and creating their own "things"....

Just my 0.02c, which probably won't help at all, but there it is.

Regards,
Adam

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