difference between xymon and nagios
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?
Different requirements. Preferences.
On Sep 5, 2010 5:50 PM, "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?
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?
I like the graphs too, especially when trying to sell management on hardware upgrades. I also like that it's really easy to forward reports from a remote client to the server. It seems like you have to jump through some hoops to get Nagios to do that.
On the other hand, at my present employer there are externally imposed requirements that mean I can only use things that come with the SuSE distributions, which pretty much means Nagios. I eventually gave up on Nagios NSCA when it stopped working for no apparent reason (ports were open, connections would open and close, but no data was sent). I replaced it with a script that uses curl to post to a php script on a webserver, so now I don't even need to justify opening ports for new installations... I imagine the same method would work for Xymon, if anyone's interested... :)
Ralph Mitchell
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Vernon Everett <everett.vernon at gmail.com>wrote:
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?
Xymon =Ease of use, lightweight and easy to customize. Some of the other tools are a little bit overkill. Nagios is a second choice for me.
From: Ralph Mitchell [mailto:ralphmitchell at gmail.com] Sent: 06 September 2010 08:25 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [xymon] difference between xymon and nagios
I like the graphs too, especially when trying to sell management on hardware upgrades. I also like that it's really easy to forward reports from a remote client to the server. It seems like you have to jump through some hoops to get Nagios to do that.
On the other hand, at my present employer there are externally imposed requirements that mean I can only use things that come with the SuSE distributions, which pretty much means Nagios. I eventually gave up on Nagios NSCA when it stopped working for no apparent reason (ports were open, connections would open and close, but no data was sent). I replaced it with a script that uses curl to post to a php script on a webserver, so now I don't even need to justify opening ports for new installations... I imagine the same method would work for Xymon, if anyone's interested... :)
Ralph Mitchell
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Vernon Everett <everett.vernon at gmail.com> wrote:
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?
Agreed here as well. We were using Nagios+Cacti+nrpe+snmp to monitor/graph.. but that was much more complicated than a simple switch to Xymon, and we get the same results :)
From: Neil Franken [mailto:nfranken at theunlimited.co.za] Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 3:33 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: RE: [xymon] difference between xymon and nagios
Xymon =Ease of use, lightweight and easy to customize. Some of the other tools are a little bit overkill. Nagios is a second choice for me.
From: Ralph Mitchell [mailto:ralphmitchell at gmail.com] Sent: 06 September 2010 08:25 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [xymon] difference between xymon and nagios
I like the graphs too, especially when trying to sell management on hardware upgrades. I also like that it's really easy to forward reports from a remote client to the server. It seems like you have to jump through some hoops to get Nagios to do that.
On the other hand, at my present employer there are externally imposed requirements that mean I can only use things that come with the SuSE distributions, which pretty much means Nagios. I eventually gave up on Nagios NSCA when it stopped working for no apparent reason (ports were open, connections would open and close, but no data was sent). I replaced it with a script that uses curl to post to a php script on a webserver, so now I don't even need to justify opening ports for new installations... I imagine the same method would work for Xymon, if anyone's interested... :)
Ralph Mitchell
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Vernon Everett <everett.vernon at gmail.com<mailto:everett.vernon at gmail.com>> wrote: 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<mailto: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?
From a technical perspective the Xymon client checks are executed by the client server, that is to say the client computer decides when it is going to run each of the tests, it runs them and sends the data back to the Xymon server.
With Nagios it is the server that decides, it contacts the client and gets it to execute a remote program via NRPE then retrieves the result. If you have a lot of clients then you are going to have a huge number of processes on the Nagios server executing remote programs on all of the clients. This is both a benefit and a problem for Nagios. +: All the configs are on the server. -: These config files can get very complicated.
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From: akshar bhosale [mailto:akshar.bhosale at gmail.com] Sent: 05 September 2010 17:39 To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [xymon] difference between xymon and nagios
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?
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