I have to rebuild a new Nagios box and thought this might be a good time to migrate away. I use snmp mostly for everything but with the fork Nagios endured I wonder about putting any more effort into the project. I probably should look at OpenNMS again, but the other options I think might work are Icinga (Should be trivial to migrate) or Zenoss or maybe even Zabbix? Anyone have experience in Nagios and care to share comparisons with similar projects with strong community involvement? Also, anyone currently running OpenNMS that can comment on the learning curve and level of flexibility coming from a Nagios user? Thanks! jlc
I am a pretty hardcore ZenOSS user.. We use it to monitor over 1000 devices in different fashions - using a combination of SNMP (Linux), WMI (windows) and SSH (Unix/Aix). While there is a slight learning curve to get everything working the way you want - it is, in my opinion, the most powerful open source NMS. It is a very active project with excellent community (and even commercial) support. I'd definitely suggest that you take a look at it. Josh -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Joseph L. Casale Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 10:32 AM To: 'centos at centos.org' Subject: [CentOS] Migrating away from Nagios I have to rebuild a new Nagios box and thought this might be a good time to migrate away. I use snmp mostly for everything but with the fork Nagios endured I wonder about putting any more effort into the project. I probably should look at OpenNMS again, but the other options I think might work are Icinga (Should be trivial to migrate) or Zenoss or maybe even Zabbix? Anyone have experience in Nagios and care to share comparisons with similar projects with strong community involvement? Also, anyone currently running OpenNMS that can comment on the learning curve and level of flexibility coming from a Nagios user? Thanks! jlc _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 6/18/2010 10:31 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote:> I have to rebuild a new Nagios box and thought this might be a good time > to migrate away. I use snmp mostly for everything but with the fork Nagios > endured I wonder about putting any more effort into the project. > > I probably should look at OpenNMS again, but the other options I think might > work are Icinga (Should be trivial to migrate) or Zenoss or maybe even Zabbix? > > Anyone have experience in Nagios and care to share comparisons with similar > projects with strong community involvement? > > Also, anyone currently running OpenNMS that can comment on the learning curve > and level of flexibility coming from a Nagios user?It depends on what you are doing, but if it is mostly snmp data collection and icmp/tcp application monitoring, OpenNMS will probably do it out of the box with autodiscovery and no client setup. If you have lots of custom nagios client code, you'll probably have to twiddle some ugly XML config files to get that data collected. The mail list support is fairly good if you have problems. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Greetings, On 6/18/10, Joseph L. Casale <jcasale at activenetwerx.com> wrote:> I have to rebuild a new Nagios box and thought this might be a good time > to migrate away.Try Zabbix. It is very responsive. in forums, mailing lists, bugzilla, etc. Important: try trunk Regards, Rajagopal
I'd try Zenoss. I wrote a big paper comparing Nagios, OpenNMS and Zenoss ( http://www.skills-1st.co.uk/papers/jane/open_source_mgmt_options.html ) - it's nearly 2 years back now but many of the basics are the same. At that time, I plumped for Zenoss but, to be fair, my main negative on OpenNMS was that it is written in Java - it did pretty-well everything I needed. On the Zenoss front, my main winges were the quality and reliability of the documentation and the code. Zenoss has done a HUGE amount of work on code reliability since then and the documentation is coming along. It runs Nagios plugins if you need that, and will use SNMP, WMI and ssh as protocols to talk to a device. The community is very active and, although Zenoss also have a commercial offering (Enterprise) as well as the free Core, we still seem to get very good air-time from the developers to help resolve issues and to take input from the community. If you want further help, please ask! Cheers, Jane -- Zenoss Master, Tivoli Certified Consultant & Instructor Skills 1st Limited, 2 Cedar Chase, Taplow, Bucks, SL6 0EU, UK. Registered in England & Wales, Company No. 3458854. Tel: +44 (0)1628 782565 Skype: jane_curry_uk Email: jane.curry at skills-1st.co.uk Web: http://www.skills-1st.co.uk Copyright (c) 2010 Jane Curry < jane.curry at skills-1st.co.uk >. All rights reserved.
----- Original Message -----> >> Did you consider opennms - and if so was there a reason for not using >> it? It has some integration for provisioning, but I'm not exactly sure >> how it works and the latest release made some changes. > > its on the list of things I want to get to one day, not quite there yet. > Although, higher on the list at the moment is the whole flapjack stack > and how it integrates with cucumber!I didn't know about that, but the first googled hit says you are supposed to be able to write reusable tests in a human-readable language which sounds way too unrealistic to ever work. And I want a tool that understands network equipment natively, not just it's own clients on only the hardware/OS's where you are able to run them. I can understand putting off testing OpenNMS back in the day when you had to get your own Sun JVM which was particularly painful on CentOS, but it has been bundled in the yum repo for a while now. And maybe someday enough bugs will be shaken out of the version of openjdk in Centos that it won't be needed... ----- Original Message ----- Hi, Has anyone looked at using icinga ? I know it replaces the front end of nagios, and uses the same (slightly modified ?) backend, using the same plugins. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLqhXvGTazI Phil.