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Nagios-plugins web site taken over by Nagios

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Re: Nagios-plugins web site taken over by Nagios

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Post by teh_klev »

helfire wrote: post #10

What alternatives to Nagios are out there? I've seen Icinga mentioned today, what else are people using?

Centreon have their own fork of Nagios (Centreon Engine) [1] and a pretty nice UI (Centreon) that beats the pants off of the crusty old Nagios CGI interface [2]. We've used the Centreon front end (but keeping Nagios as the underlying monitoring engine) for about three years now and have been very happy with it.

[1]: http://www.centreon.com/Content-Download/download-centreon-e...

[2]: http://www.centreon.com/Content-Download/donwload-centreon

Re: Nagios-plugins web site taken over by Nagios

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Post by jlgaddis »

smnv wrote: post #20
helfire wrote: post #10

What alternatives to Nagios are out there? I've seen Icinga mentioned today, what else are people using?

What about http://cacti.net/ ? With Weathermap plugin it is quite good thing for performance monitoring. THold and Monitor plugins are for availability monitoring and alerting. It scales very good with Boost plugin, I had 3000+ hosts, 60000+ datasources with total poll time within one minute. Many prefer Cacti to Zabbix because the latter is clunky and confusing compared to Cacti's simple straightforward approach wit…

Cacti serves a very different purpose, IMO. Up/down monitoring is not a core feature and, honestly, it's not that good at it.

Re: Nagios-plugins web site taken over by Nagios

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Post by teh_klev »

jlgaddis wrote: post #23
mzr wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Observium is good for network monitoring: http://www.observium.org

It's license sucks, though.

Licensed under a slightly modified "Q Public License":

http://www.observium.org/wiki/Developing_for_Observium#Licen...

http://opensource.org/licenses/QPL-1.0

So not totally sucky, it's still open source and free beer.

Re: Nagios-plugins web site taken over by Nagios

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Post by teh_klev »

smnv wrote: post #20
helfire wrote: post #10

What alternatives to Nagios are out there? I've seen Icinga mentioned today, what else are people using?

What about http://cacti.net/ ? With Weathermap plugin it is quite good thing for performance monitoring. THold and Monitor plugins are for availability monitoring and alerting. It scales very good with Boost plugin, I had 3000+ hosts, 60000+ datasources with total poll time within one minute. Many prefer Cacti to Zabbix because the latter is clunky and confusing compared to Cacti's simple straightforward approach wit…

Cacti is just a graphing tool that sits on top of RRDTool . It doesn't provide up/down monitoring and host/service check scheduling, it doesn't provide features such as alert escalation logic, and a whole bunch of other fairly important things that a monitoring engine such as Nagios does.

Re: Nagios-plugins web site taken over by Nagios

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Post by jlgaddis »

teh_klev wrote: post #24
jlgaddis wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's license sucks, though.

Licensed under a slightly modified "Q Public License": http://www.observium.org/wiki/Developing_for_Observium#Licen... http://opensource.org/licenses/QPL-1.0 So not totally sucky, it's still open source and free beer.

You can't redistribute it (even though they include GPLv2'd code with it).

That's not exactly free.

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