At least LOOK at ZenOSS

Post #295,458 by folkert 10/31/07 7:06:34 PM Reply	At least LOOK at ZenOSS Its got a nice front end and it seems to be well built and it also can use ANY nagios plugin you install. [link\|http://www.zenoss.com/download/links\|http://www.zenoss.com/download/links] The Virtual Appliance actually WORKS. I tested it a bit ago, locally, but not time to play right now. Nagios works, its just a PITA to configure. Defining hosts, so that DNS can fail and everything still works. Using naming conventions to keep the names short on pages to phones. I know, 1200 services monitored (adding 300 this week or so), 300 interfaces to keep track of, some are additional IPs on interfaces... but I still gotta whack them every three minutes. Plus twigging router with SNMPD, Hosts with SNMPD, out of order checking on SNMPGET SUCKS and is tough to track down. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* `PGP key: 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05 Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C Alternate Fingerprint: 09F9 1102 9D74 E35B D841 56C5 6356 88C0 Alternate Fingerprint: 455F E104 22CA 29C4 933F 9505 2B79 2AB2`
Post #295,470 by crazy 10/31/07 10:36:21 PM Reply	Pretty I only have about (hmmm) 40 services that I'll be monitoring. I've got about 25 defined so far. Nagios will work. When reviewing Zenoss, I really don't like the concept of open source crippleware / bait and switch. You know, teaser version with X capability, paid with X+. [link\|http://www.zenoss.com/product/overview#subscriptions\|http://www.zenoss.co...iew#subscriptions] And that pricing is total bullshit. They start at $66 per managed resource per year. And then say: Min 50 resources.
Post #295,491 by folkert 11/1/07 5:17:35 PM Reply	Yeah, I know. I just say you owe it to yourself to review. Its built on a Zope Appserver, with lotsa stuffs underneath, plus anything nagios expands it to beyond what they would like... -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* `PGP key: 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05 Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C Alternate Fingerprint: 09F9 1102 9D74 E35B D841 56C5 6356 88C0 Alternate Fingerprint: 455F E104 22CA 29C4 933F 9505 2B79 2AB2`

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