Nagios isn't ready for prime time

[Williams, P. Lane]

Agreed.  Try the other packages first......Network/Server monitoring is
an art of understanding systems and knowing what needs to be monitored.
If a package is easy out of the box, it more than likely isn't doing
what you wish it would do and will require much more time to configure.
A decent UNIX admin can easily script the Nagios configuration on first
load, as long as they have read the documentation and understand how
Nagios works and understand network monitoring protocols and such.....as
any sane admin would do.


Lane Williams
Linux Systems Administrator
Johns Hopkins University APL


-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Aaron
Carr
Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 11:04 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios isn't ready for prime time

I'm not going to blast you for it, but your statement lacks reality.

Time is the problem?

Try setting up Tivoli or OpenView, then come back and tell us all how
much time or money you saved setting those up.

My last company spent over $1MM and 6 months on consulting to get
OpenView running, and it still wasn't producing the results they wanted
yet.

Truth is, network monitoring tools are NOT easy or fast to set up if you
want them to be useful.  None of them that are worth deploying anyway.

On 5/15/05, Adam Emery <subscribe at aehome.net> wrote:
> I thought this same thing for a while but if you run make 
> install-config in ver 1.x it will install those files as *.sample.  
> all a person has to do is rename removing the .sample.  once that is 
> done it is very simple for a basic configuration.  I myself am still 
> working on the more advanced stuff but getting it up and running if 
> you follow the docs step by step takes less than 30 minutes (depending

> on the speed of the machine).  2.x is a bit different and I haven't 
> had much luck with it but I will start that project again once I get
my test machine back up.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of jim 
> tate
> Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 8:48 AM
> To: nagios maillists
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios isn't ready for prime time
> 
> First I want to say that the Nagios documentation is very good.
> But expecting a new to Nagios person to build the object config files 
> is so time consuming and not understanding a lot of what is required 
> in cfg files.
> Why not put the object cfg files in Nagios as the app is compiled.
> For a IT person first being subjected to Negios , the time factor is 
> to much.
> I know I'm going to get blasted for  my statement , but  I'm not 
> trying to be nasty, but constructive.
> I know Nagios will be a very worthwhile app. in the future and I truly

> look forward to it, as a radicle Linux user.
> 
> Jim
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