[Xymon] Advantages of Xymon vs Nagios?

[LOZOVSKY, DANIEL L]

I can tell you this much.  I engaged a nagios team at AT&T at the request of my management.  After showing the nagios SMEs what I needed to do in order to monitor the worlds biggest oracle e-business ERP implantation, the nagios SME told me that I would need to implement a farm of nagios servers to do the same that I am doing with my modified BB one solaris server.  Right now with BB that is running on a 16 year old solaris server, I am monitoring server health, Oracle db health, network and complex internal Supply Chain logic.

Nagios is a decent product, just does not work for what we need to do at supply chain.    

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> On Feb 8, 2015, at 6:36 PM, Andrew Rakowski <landrew at pnnl.gov> wrote:
> 
> I've been using Big Brother since 1999, and Xymon for the last couple of years (on a different project at the lab), but recently, a team member has suggested that we switch infrastructure monitoring to Nagios, which he's been using on other systems he manages elsewhere in the lab.
> 
> He's using something called OMD (the Open Monitoring Distribution - from http://omdistro.org/ ), which is supposed to improve on the complexity of using Nagios.  Our management would like us to do a comparison to see if we should switch from our old Big Brother monitoring (which is still running well) to a more up to date Xymon or convert instead to OMD/Nagios.
> 
> Looking for information on Xymon and Nagios comparisons, I found this comment from Henrik in the Xymon mailing list archive:
> 
>    http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2006-June/007530.html
> 
> that mentions the ease of setup and use of Xymon as compared to Nagios, but that comment is nine years old.
> 
> Daniel's recent comments on this list about wanting to move from Nagios to Xymon:
> 
> On Fri, 6 Feb 2015, LOZOVSKY, DANIEL L wrote (in part):
>> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Installing xymon/apache as a non-root user
> [...snip...]
>> community.  I have been pushing AT&T to utilize xymon instead of nagios. I have been using BB open source version for almost 10 years and it really saved us at Supply Chain.  Of course, I had to make a lot of modifications to it.  Xymon is the next logical step to help make things much better.
> [...snip...]
> 
> has me wondering what I can point to as good reasons to use Xymon vs Nagios, as certainly, people do want to switch.
> 
> So, what are reasons that folks like Xymon better than Nagios (besides all the helpful info from the great group of folks I've been reading during my years of lurking on the list...)?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> -Andrew
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