nagios versus big brother - opinions please.

[Simon Kitching]

The BB/Nagios question was asked on this list about 3-4 weeks ago.
If you check the email archives, there should be lots of info available.

Obviously the people subscribed to this list are biased, but it seemed
fairly obvious that Nagios has some significant features that Big
Brother lacks.

On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 18:00, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> 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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