"Cost" of Nagios

[Stanley Hopcroft]

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,

On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 04:39:01PM -0700, nagios-users-request at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:

> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:53:59 -0400
> From: Flak Magnet <flakmagnet at tabletop-battlezone.com>
> 
>
  .. snip ..
 
> Does anybody here pay for (or charge for) a Nagios installation?  I 
> figure if I can get an idea of what Nagios costs to implement, then I 
> can base my continuous improvment paperwork on that...
> 
> (Considering the time that CI takes in a given year, a CI has already 
> been submitted to do away with the CI process entirely...  It was 
> rejected by the people who were hired specifically to run our CI 
> process... go figure)
>


ROFL. I thought only the Public/Civil services did such things.

One thing I can assure you of is that Nagios costs _less_ in every
conceivable dimension than Tivoli.
 
Easier to install.
Easier to configure.
Easier to read/understand docco.
Easier to provide access control.
Easier to get doing even basic things such as notification or 
escalation.
Easier to operate.

You haven't lived until you realise that you need to know Prolog 
to get the best out of the Tivoli TEC rules.

One can get a working Nag installation going pretty darn 
quick. If speed is required, some of the power tools like
nmap + CPAN Nagios::Config might get one going very quickly,

It sounds like you want to look at the cost of getting any 'Enterprise 
Management System' in place or alternatively have a look at the ITIL 
propoganda on the benefits of infrastructure management.

> -- 
> 
> --Tim
> "I'm gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday, m'kay?" -- Office 
> Space
> 

Yours sincerely.


-- 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Stanley Hopcroft
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'...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the
continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes
me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know
for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...'

from Meditation 17, J Donne.


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