[Xymon] why do you use xymon?

[Ralph Mitchell]

I took a quick look at the Zenoss community page, and fairly quickly
noticed one interesting thing - apparently it's agentless.   No agent to
install on target systems, because it picks up information using SNMP.
 That's not necessarily bad, but some companies don't like it.  Or you can
use "zencommand" to run nagios binaries on your target.  That info is dated
May 2008, so maybe it grew up since?

Right now I'm running a somewhat modified xymon client out of cron on AIX,
RHEL and SuSE systems, delivering reports over https on port 443 (which is
open anyway) instead of opening port 1984.  It doesn't use any compiled
binaries other than the standard system commands, which means that I don't
have to recompile for system updates.  Bourne shell all the way...  :-)

My situation may be unique, though - we have to comply with both PCI *and*
DIACAP requirements.

Ralph Mitchell


On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Jones, Elizabeth <Ejones at egov.com> wrote:

> Would any of you mind telling me why you use xymon? I have a co-worker who
> is pushing hard for zenoss, and his arguments include “gui discovery tool”,
> “no hand editing of config files”, “it is an enterprise level monitoring
> system and you can buy support and bring in a consultant to set it up for
> you”, and the ever popular “everyone is using zenoss now”. ****
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