Open-Source Network Management Tools

Wed Sep 15 04:47:04 UTC 2004

> Ah yes, I'm looking forward to seeing that. :)  Need beta testers?
I will definitely need some when we make a release worthy of nanogers!
I will make a post at that time.

> Ah my bad, I did forget about Zabbix - one of my guys was just showing
> it off to me a few weeks ago, too.  Does look good, I just don't see
> justification for replacing our nagios setups with it. 
My take would be that once configured both are similar.
Nagios has a bit tougher configuration, and Zabbix is better looking.
They are pretty much head to head in terms of features, and Nagios is a
tad more popular.
Nagios is primarily coded in C, when zabbix has some C but primarily
PHP.
But to your point they are both excellent, and there is no big reason to
switch once you have one up, except for the sake of diversity....

-- 
Cheers
Philippe

philippe ombredanne | nexB - Open IT Asset Management 
1 650 799 0949 | pombredanne at nexb.com 
http://www.nexb.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On 
> Behalf Of John Kinsella
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 8:07 PM
> To: Philippe Ombredanne
> Cc: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 07:54:54PM -0700, Philippe Ombredanne wrote:
> > Well I hope that we will be coming with (nexb) will not be 
> sucking, but
> > it is not production grade yet.
> > Will have to wait a few more months.

> 
> > > I'm looking for open-source alternatives for network 
> > > management, such as  Nagios or Big Brother.
> > I would add to the list the excellent zabbix, just ass 
> popular as jjfnms
> > http://www.zabbix.com/features.php
> 
> Ah my bad, I did forget about Zabbix - one of my guys was just showing
> it off to me a few weeks ago, too.  Does look good, I just don't see
> justification for replacing our nagios setups with it. 
> 
> John
> 
> 
>