[Xymon] Advantages of Xymon vs Nagios?

[Nikolai Lifanov]

On 02/08/15 20:36, Andrew Rakowski 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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For the sake of good investigation, I would ask the same question on
Nagios MLs as well. You will find that people here tend to have positive
things to say about Xymon.

- Nikolai Lifanov