From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: Gentoo mailing list <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} tried Nimsoft Monitoring?
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 22:42:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN0CFw24z=6+-TmWm9rn9pkhJW=8U=Hn71q9eQ4WmnCuZ2iPdg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20130916T164851-451@post.gmane.org>
>> Has anyone tried Nimsoft Monitoring? It's included at Soft Layer
>> which must mean a free license.
>
> No. IBM has a general strategy to "suck you in"
> so caveat emptor...... You really wan to install
> IBM binaries on any machine? (Think NSA).
Nevermind!
>> It looks like a substitute for Nagios.
>
> Nagios has been under numerous stresses for
> quite some time, for a variety of reasons, imho.
> Forking, Borking, and Porking out is what I see
> of Nagios; ymmv.
I didn't realize that.
> jffnms is well written, modular and quite responsive
> to the individual's (organization's) needs, imho.
> All in source code form.
>
> Last time I checked, there was a new (recent) ebuild
> for jffnms. Patches are easy to apply and I think
> (Gentoo) folks are starting to use jffnms much more.
>
> Check it out, most are happy with it, and find it
> easy (particulary with SNMP 1,2.3) to install and extend.
It looks great, thank you for the recommendation. Have you used
munin? If so, do you think jffnms is a substitute or compliment to
that package?
- Grant
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-17 5:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-14 9:09 [gentoo-user] {OT} tried Nimsoft Monitoring? Grant
2013-09-16 15:06 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2013-09-17 5:42 ` Grant [this message]
2013-09-17 6:05 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-09-17 6:35 ` Grant
2013-09-17 12:36 ` James Horton PE
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