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>> Has anyone tried Nimsoft Monitoring? It's included at Soft Layer |
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>> which must mean a free license. |
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> No. IBM has a general strategy to "suck you in" |
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> so caveat emptor...... You really wan to install |
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> IBM binaries on any machine? (Think NSA). |
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Nevermind! |
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>> It looks like a substitute for Nagios. |
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> Nagios has been under numerous stresses for |
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> quite some time, for a variety of reasons, imho. |
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> Forking, Borking, and Porking out is what I see |
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> of Nagios; ymmv. |
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I didn't realize that. |
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> jffnms is well written, modular and quite responsive |
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> to the individual's (organization's) needs, imho. |
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> All in source code form. |
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> Last time I checked, there was a new (recent) ebuild |
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> for jffnms. Patches are easy to apply and I think |
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> (Gentoo) folks are starting to use jffnms much more. |
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> Check it out, most are happy with it, and find it |
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> easy (particulary with SNMP 1,2.3) to install and extend. |
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It looks great, thank you for the recommendation. Have you used |
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munin? If so, do you think jffnms is a substitute or compliment to |
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that package? |
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- Grant |
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