<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Network IP Dog <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:network.ipdog@gmail.com">network.ipdog@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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What do you use?<br>
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What are the pro's & con's too?</blockquote><br><div>I've never run a large data center, but I've been involved in small-ish ones. I'm a pretty big fan of Nagios (<a href="http://nagios.org/">http://nagios.org/</a>) because you can write custom checks to do just about anything you want - and the checks are just programs or scripts that need to provide a return code and a message, so it works great if you have custom applications to monitor. I can't speak to how well it scales in larger environments, but it's fairly straight forward to install, configure and use, and it's extensible. Nagios Core is what they call the free/OSS version, and they also have a commercial product which adds some features.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I also have limited experience with Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold from a couple years back. It wasn't quite as extensible and I think it only ran on Windows. Overall it left a bad taste, but again that was a couple versions ago.</div>
<div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Was it based on limited budget or budget was not a factor?<br></blockquote><div><br></div>
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At the two ${DAYJOB}s I've used Nagios, it was mostly based on budget, in both cases monitoring needed to be set up, and the companies weren't quite ready to spend money on software.</div><div><br></div></div><div>
<br></div>-- <br><br><div>David Andrzejewski</div><div><a href="http://davidandrzejewski.me" target="_blank">http://davidandrzejewski.me</a></div><div><a href="http://www.davidandrzejewski.com" target="_blank">http://www.davidandrzejewski.com</a></div>
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