[Xymon] Advantages of Xymon vs Nagios?

[Olivier AUDRY]

hello

I think your answer is in your question : 'which is supposed to improve 
on the complexity of using Nagios'. Nagios is horribly complex and 
heavy as xymon is simple light extensible and elegant. I'm monitore 
around 25 000 devices (from telco layer 2 and 3 , os, vmware to apps ) 
without any pb with a team of 2 and a half people. So you can maintain 
easily xymon.

oau

Le lun. 9 févr. 2015 à 4:35, LOZOVSKY, DANIEL L <dl1025 at att.com> a 
écrit :
> 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.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>>  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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