[xymon] difference between xymon and nagios

[Ward, Martin]

>From a technical perspective the Xymon client checks are executed by the
client server, that is to say the client computer decides when it is
going to run each of the tests, it runs them and sends the data back to
the Xymon server.

 

With Nagios it is the server that decides, it contacts the client and
gets it to execute a remote program via NRPE then retrieves the result.
If you have a lot of clients then you are going to have a huge number of
processes on the Nagios server executing remote programs on all of the
clients.  This is both a benefit and a problem for Nagios. +: All the
configs are on the server. -: These config files can get very
complicated.

 

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From: akshar bhosale [mailto:akshar.bhosale at gmail.com] 
Sent: 05 September 2010 17:39
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [xymon] difference between xymon and nagios

 

Hi,
we want to know the difference between xymon and nagios monitoring tool
and is it that xymon is preffered over nagois ? if so why?


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