For me, the biggest advantage of Xymon over Nagios, is the graphs. They "just work" straight out of the box, and it's really easy to implement new ones. Nagios might tell you a disk is full, but cannot tell you how it got full. Did it fill up in the last half hour, or has it taken the last 3 months to hit the threshold? Your reaction to these 2 very similar scenarios would be very different.
Another big advantage is the amount of additional information you can supply on screen.
Nagios is a good tool, I will not knock it, and in the absense of Xymon, it would probably be the next best thing for me. However, Xymon can do more, so it is my monitoring tool of choice.
YMMV.
Regards Vernon
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 12:39 AM, akshar bhosale <akshar.bhosale at gmail.com>wrote:
Hi, we want to know the difference between xymon and nagios monitoring tool and is it that xymon is preffered over nagois ? if so why?