On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Galen Johnson <Galen.Johnson at sas.com>wrote:
While the main view/non-green view may seem outdated, it's the very simplicity of it that is attractive. Compare to Nagios or Hyperic or pretty much any other solution...you have a simple, at a glance view of exactly where your problems are. Admittedly, it does lose a bit when you have hundreds (thousands) of machines but it is still one of the primary comparisons I use for other vendors that come in and want to replace Xymon.
That is one of the issues currently. We have thousands of hosts currently and things can spiral quite quickly.
That said, I find the mind map view that you've chosen to be interesting. It could also be a heat map view like http://finviz.com/map.ashx (I kinda prefer this due to it's simplicity).
We have our "heatmap" version coming in Stage 2 (Zoomable Pack Extension on the Roadmap). While we have it working in production, it does need to be polished up a bit. The managers seem to love it since you can quickly spot issues and drill down directly to the root cause.
Quite useful feedback, thanks!
Regards, Cami