[74132] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Open-Source Network Management Tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philippe Ombredanne)
Wed Sep 15 00:48:47 2004
From: "Philippe Ombredanne" <pombredanne@nexb.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:47:04 -0700
In-Reply-To: <20040915030704.GM12039@jkdt.thrashyour.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Ah yes, I'm looking forward to seeing that. :) Need beta testers?
I will definitely need some when we make a release worthy of nanogers!
I will make a post at that time.
> Ah my bad, I did forget about Zabbix - one of my guys was just showing
> it off to me a few weeks ago, too. Does look good, I just don't see
> justification for replacing our nagios setups with it.=20
My take would be that once configured both are similar.
Nagios has a bit tougher configuration, and Zabbix is better looking.
They are pretty much head to head in terms of features, and Nagios is a
tad more popular.
Nagios is primarily coded in C, when zabbix has some C but primarily
PHP.
But to your point they are both excellent, and there is no big reason to
switch once you have one up, except for the sake of diversity....
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Cheers
Philippe
philippe ombredanne | nexB - Open IT Asset Management=20
1 650 799 0949 | pombredanne at nexb.com=20
http://www.nexb.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On=20
> Behalf Of John Kinsella
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 8:07 PM
> To: Philippe Ombredanne
> Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools
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> On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 07:54:54PM -0700, Philippe Ombredanne wrote:
> > Well I hope that we will be coming with (nexb) will not be=20
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> > it is not production grade yet.
> > Will have to wait a few more months.
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> > > I'm looking for open-source alternatives for network=20
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> > I would add to the list the excellent zabbix, just ass=20
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> > http://www.zabbix.com/features.php
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> Ah my bad, I did forget about Zabbix - one of my guys was just showing
> it off to me a few weeks ago, too. Does look good, I just don't see
> justification for replacing our nagios setups with it.=20
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> John
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