Lithium

I was running Nagios - but switched to Zenoss.

http://www.zenoss.com/

Working well so far - although I mainly use it for checking if devices are up via ping - and emailing me when they go down. I have snmp enable for the servers and it is pulling graphs - but I haven't looked into them much.
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Technology Specialist
Anthony Wayne Schools K-12
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"Criss Myers" <CMyers at uclan.ac.uk> writes: Does anyone use Lithium or Nagios to monitor their servers?

I've never had the time to learn how to setup and run nagios yet. I recently downloaded and did a 30 trial of Lithium and absolutely loved it. It's commercial, but it does a whack of stuff covered by other OSS packages like nagios, cacti, smokeping, but all in one bundle rather than having to learn + implement them separately.

If I can convince management, I'm hoping we'll buy it this summer.

Gene Anderson
Systems Analyst, ACTC, MCP
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We tested Nagios, it's a pain to set up but once configured it's pretty much
bullet proof. As long as you are not doing e-comerce work where you may
want to script round trip web response times it works well out of the box.
Nagios also has a for profit version that may be more robust.

Hyperic is another product that has a freebie version. MySQL DB and Tomcat
front end...

Love it - use it to monitor Windows, Mac, Linux, services...simple.

Can be a bit buggy sometimes, but you should see what is coming in version 5!

http://lithium5.com/

We use Nagios here. I've played with Zabbix and Zenoss, which both have much
On 4/17/09 6:54 AM, "Criss Myers" <CMyers at uclan.ac.uk> wrote:
better graphics than Nagios. However, I found that setting up checks like
Nagios does wasn't as simple or easy in Zabbix or Zenoss, or I just didn't
adjust my thinking appropriately. I know that Nagios has a web frontend
available (3rd party but open source), but I haven't had time to migrate to
it nor play with it.

For us Nagios currently monitors 99 hosts with 261 services. The hosts
comprise switches, routers, servers, and misc equipment.

Dave

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