rgoldberg
join:2008-01-05
Duluth, MN
| reply to prairiesky
Re: nagios question
I've also used nagios since the netsaint days. I can't tell you how many time I said to myself "I'm just gonna fricken write an sql driven config manager for nagios". Anyhow, in the meantime, apparently these guys did:
»www.opsview.org/
So we're in the process of moving our 1000ish hosts in to opsview.
Ryan |
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dr mongolia
join:2008-07-03
United State
 ·Cox HSI
| Wow, Opsview looks like a significant improvement over Nagios. I especially like the way they have the host hierarchies, and of course the integration of RRDtool and historical data (including graphs) is huge. Also the API looks very easy to follow if you want to import host status into other applications, etc.
I can't believe I've never heard of this before.. Is there any reason NOT to switch to Opsview (besides migration)? I'm googling around looking for complaints/bugs but I can't find much. |
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rgoldberg
join:2008-01-05
Duluth, MN
| No, I don't think so. No problems so far, having moved our services and the root of the ISP network into it. Migrating sucks, but we were overdue for a big clean up anyway.
Just to be clear (and to give nagios its props) nagios is the major component under the hood of opsview. The opsview guys really have done an awesome job of front-ending the config management and integrating some key plugins (basic trending).
For many years, we've run nagios (for everything) and cacti (for some things). About a year ago I started looking around at other solutions. Check out »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison···_systems. We wound up buying solarwinds orion for customer-facing reporting and are now moving to opsview and keeping cacti for our internal stuff.
The solarwinds purchase was nearly 100% driven by our high-end customers' familiarity/comfort with it. It's pretty cool too, but it's a pig (resource wise) and heavy customization, while possible, is a pain. And of course it costs money.
By the way, I don't think cacti can be beat for customized trending data, commercial or free.
Ryan |
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dr mongolia
join:2008-07-03
United State
·Cox HSI
| Wow, thanks for that link. I'm doing some overhauling right now on our NMS so that table is great.
Yeah from the screencast I saw on their website, Opsview's RRDtool integration is not versatile enough to replace a power tool like cacti. But, IMHO, the lack of any real trending in Nagios was annoying. |
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