"Cost" of Nagios

Quanah Gibson-Mount quanah at stanford.edu
Wed Jun 16 23:20:54 CEST 2004



--On Wednesday, June 16, 2004 3:14 PM -0400 Robert Nelson 
<rnelson at windchannel.com> wrote:

> The larger part of your calculation is going to be figuring out how long
> it takes to get things in Nagios. If you have a contractor come out
> there and pound on it, it might be really quick. If you have to do it
> yourself in between your other tasks, it make take you weeks or months
> (like me!) simply because there's so much to add, document, and figure
> out parent/child relationships.
>
> On the benefits side, I can tell you that without a doubt, you will have
> a crapload more, in quantity and quality, of documentation on your
> network. Some of the time/money you dump into getting it set up has a
> direct payoff because of this.

Hm... the use of templates minimizes a lot of that, and is quite useful.  I 
generally contrast it to the cost of *not having monitoring*, which I think 
is a lot higher. ;)

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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Stanford University
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