Hi, Tinh
Nice to see you post question here.
I went through this Xymon vs Nagios evaluation exercise a few month ago. Last evaluation was Hobbit vs BB.
Please see questions I posted to Nagio support in R1 for a clue, why Xymon got picked over Nagios (in my case).
R1. http://support.nagios.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=442&p=1831#p1831
tj On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Ward, Martin <Martin.Ward at colt.net> wrote:
Nagios was designed as a daemon to monitor itself on its own server. It relies on Nagios extensions like nrpe to transfer data back from remote servers.
Configuration is extremely complicated in Nagios as compared to Xymon. You can get a Xymon server up and running much more quickly than a Nagios server because the Xymon client does so much of the work for you out of the box. By the same token, getting a Xymon client monitored is very simple, just installing the application and starting it up immediately gets you a host of standard system monitors like disk, memory, CPU and connectivity. Nagios is not so quick.
When it comes down to writing non-standard monitors they are as easy as each other although at the end of the day, as mentioned by Johan, Xymon can send large packets of data back, Nagios currently can't…
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From: tinh.do at continental-corporation.com [mailto:tinh.do at continental-corporation.com] Sent: 01 December 2010 18:40
To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [xymon] Compare Xymon and Nagios
some groups in my company start to use Nagios.
Has anyone used it.. Can anyone give the feedback regarding the Nagios. Pro or Con are welcome. I need that information to defend my choice of Xymon.
Thanks
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