nagios versus big brother - opinions please.

[Scot L. Harris]

Why not use both, it would give you a redundant system checking on
everything.  And if you need to monitor external systems use Nagios for
those.

>From my experience both systems can do the job.  I agree the status
pages on Big Brother are a little nicer but you get all the same data
(or can with appropriate add ons) from either system.  

On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 23:00, Broun, Bevan wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> We have both nagios and big brother doing monitoring here. The big brother
> installation is handled by our applications team while the nagios
> installations is handled by the infrastruture team. The is a bit of
> fricton between the teams. We are now at the point where nagios is
> installed on many servers, big brother on fewer and the applications team
> wants bb installed on some servers where nagios already is. My role is as
> one of two infrastructure architects to whom decision making on this sort
> of stuff is given (which is not that much fun - trying to keep everybody
> happy).
> 
> Im no expert in either product but favour nagios as purely on a licensing
> basis. BB is free for internal, costs if you start to monitor external.
> Nagios, as you all know, is GPL.
> 
> BB seems to have a slicker interface, but this is of only little
> importance.
> 
> Please send any strong technical arguments in favour of one system or the
> other.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> BB
> 
> 
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