Nagios Vs MOM

[Andreas Ericsson]

Please don't top-post. It's terribly annoying.

Emmett Keyser wrote:
> I apologize to the list for this but I just want to say something....
> 
> I don't think he was asking for opinions on his work environment. Not
> all of us are so lucky to have the ideal work environment. I for one
> thought it was a good question; something I've wondered about myself.
> I've been following this list for about four months now and think it's
> a great source of information. But do we really need opinions of the
> people we work for/with? Windows isn't optimal or perfect or whatever

No system is. If they were there wouldn't be others.

> - WE GET IT. The question had to do with MOM vs. Nagios in Windows
> environments.

No, it was about differences between MOM vs Nagios in *any* environment. 
It just states that MOM is obviously geared towards a windows-dominated 
environment.

> I think it's a valid question. I don't think it should
> elicit a response that his boss(es) are idiots or that he should quit
> his job.
> 

True. What I said was that Nagios' strong side is that it handles all 
devices and emphasized this with the fact that no sane network have only 
one kind of device/OS/whatever. There was an if() clause around that 
part about stupid bosses so it doesn't necessarily apply and I didn't 
tell him to quit his job. I just said that I would if I were him. My 
opinions are so obviously my own that noone with a will of their own 
will take actions based on them as a recommendation on how to behave.

That last sentence actually makes sense if you read it twice or so (I 
think). ;)

> On 10/27/05, Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se> wrote:
> 
>>Ray La Peyre wrote:
>>
>>>Hi List
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>I have a client that has presented me with the question of "Why use Nagios
>>>rather than MOM (Microsoft Operations Monitor)" apart from the obvious price
>>>difference I could not find much information in direct comparison to the
>>>two. I was wondering if anyone had any information that I could tell him on
>>>what MOM does that Nagios can't (if any). MOM is obviously geared towards a
>>>Microsoft Environment where nagios is much more generic but with NSClient,
>>>nagios can monitor a lot of important windows components but I don't know if
>>>it is up to the same level (or even close) to MOM.
>>>
>>
>>If Nagios ever gets as good as MOM at windows monitoring, then M$ should
>>shut down.
>>
>>Nagios efficiently monitors hosts (all kinds, gimme an OS and I'll tell
>>you if Nagios can monitor it), switches (all kinds, gimme... ekcetera),
>>routers and whatever else you might have. The strength of Nagios is its
>>versatility. You can't, for instance, monitor OpenVMS, Solaris or HPUX
>>boxen with MOM, but you can with Nagios. If you have a "windows-only"
>>policy in the network your managers are most likely idiots (windows is
>>far from optimal for all kinds of servers). In that case, I feel for you
>>and, if I were you, would likely quit my job.
>>
>>--
>>Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
>>OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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