Nagios Vs. Big Brother

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

	Well, speaking as an administrator that when I took over the
office network that had Big Brother as the monitoring software and
quickly moved to Nagios (actually moved when it was still Netsaint). The
biggest reason for the move was the high level of false positives on 
outagea. Big Brother has no concept of a "planned outage" which caused
countless alerts to be sent out for numerous services being monitored on
hosts during a planned outage. Big Brother had no "wiggle room" for
small network congestion which lead to more false positives when there
was a burp between monitoring host and monitored host.

	Overall Nagios has way more going for it than Big Brother.
Besides the ability to schedule outages and configurability to only send
alerts after X amount of monitoring failures, you then have to look at
the system as a whole. Nagios has much more reporting capability from
the historical trendlines. Also the ability to have configured
escalation routines and service/host dependencies.

	For us it was a no brainer...

	Regards,
	Jeremy

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 12:45:33PM -0700, Brent Ryan wrote:
> I know there is some obvious answers to this, but is there any
> documentation of pros/cons for these monitoring applications?
>  
> Why is nagios better then Big Brother?
>  
>  
> Brent
> 


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