On 8/2/07, Erik Anderson <erikerik at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 8/2/07, Donovan Niesen <dniesen at gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm thinking of setting up Nagios to monitor a few boxes that I like to > keep > > a close eye on but also wanted to see if there were alternatives that > other > > people like better network/service monitoring. Otherwise I'm also keen > to > > hear any success or horror stories with Nagios implementations. > > I've been using Nagios since the Netsaint days and I've found it to be > an incredibly reliable, no nonsense network monitoring package. Every > year or so I spend a few days evaluating the various other netmon > solutions out there and I always end up coming back to Nagios. The > others seem overly complex or overly simple for my needs. > > That said, the initial install of Nagios can be somewhat of a pain. > Fortunately I've done it enough times that I can complete the install > from start to finish in about 15 minutes. Installing it for the first > time, though, can take upwards of an hour. > > -Erik > I don't mind a learning curve especially if the app is versatile and stable. I'm thinking my initial instinct to go with Nagios is a good direction. Thanks to everyone for the feedback! -- Donovan Niesen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20070802/802dd979/attachment.htm