[xymon] Compare Xymon and Nagios

[Johan Sjöberg]

Another thing that is great with Xymon is that you can send a lot of information with the status message, and view it in Xymon, not just the color and a short message. You don't have to log on to the system to see what caused the warning/error, and it's also great for keeping trends/history. Maybe this is possible in Nagios as well with some plugin, but I don't think it's the default behavior.

/Johan

From: Neil Franken [mailto:nfranken at theunlimited.co.za]
Sent: den 2 december 2010 06:15
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: RE: [xymon] Compare Xymon and Nagios

Sinh Chao Tinh (I assume you are Vietnamese judging by your name).

One of the most usefull features of xymon versus Nagios for me is that Xymon is extremely easy to get up and running, troubleshoot and understand. I recently had a look at Nagios and OpenNMS just to see whats on the other side of the fence.  Also to add new custom alerts to Xymon is very very easy compared to the other two. For example I monitor values in a SQL table every 5 minutes and alert our operations team when there is a discrepancy. The whole process of developing the script to do it must have been about 5 minutes.

Anyway

Hope that gives you some answers.

From: tinh.do at continental-corporation.com [mailto:tinh.do at continental-corporation.com]
Sent: 01 December 2010 08:40 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [xymon] Compare Xymon and Nagios

some groups in my company start to use Nagios.
Has anyone used it..
Can anyone give the feedback regarding the Nagios. Pro or Con are welcome.
I need that information to defend my choice of Xymon.

Thanks
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