On 8/2/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Erik Anderson</b> <<a href="mailto:erikerik@gmail.com">erikerik@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 8/2/07, Donovan Niesen <<a href="mailto:dniesen@gmail.com">dniesen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I'm thinking of setting up Nagios to monitor a few boxes that I like to keep<br>> a close eye on but also wanted to see if there were alternatives that other
<br>> people like better network/service monitoring. Otherwise I'm also keen to<br>> hear any success or horror stories with Nagios implementations.<br><br>I've been using Nagios since the Netsaint days and I've found it to be
<br>an incredibly reliable, no nonsense network monitoring package. Every<br>year or so I spend a few days evaluating the various other netmon<br>solutions out there and I always end up coming back to Nagios. The<br>others seem overly complex or overly simple for my needs.
<br><br>That said, the initial install of Nagios can be somewhat of a pain.<br>Fortunately I've done it enough times that I can complete the install<br>from start to finish in about 15 minutes. Installing it for the first
<br>time, though, can take upwards of an hour.<br><br>-Erik<br></blockquote></div><br>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!
<br clear="all"><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Donovan Niesen