I don't have experience with Big Brother, but I have used nagios for a couple of years. I've found that it works well for me. I have about 20 hosts and about 90 services I am monitoring. Nagios is very flexible and configurable as far as what you are monitoring. There are also some interesting plugins available and a method for writing your own if you have something peculiar to monitor. IMO, the only problems nagios are that it is a bit overwhelming and confusing at first and the config files seem unnecessarily verbose. A smaller site I am monitoring (8 hosts, 20 services) has about 1200 lines in cfg files (some white space and comments, but not overly so). I think if you invest 3-5 days learning and setting up nagios for a big site like yours, it will work well for you and you shouldn't have to mess with it much after the initial install. If bb4 does what you want, maybe it's not worth the effort moving to nagios. Sorry I don't have more of a comparison. Why are you thinking about leaving bb4? Lloyd On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 09:53, Shane Presley wrote: > I was wondering if anyone had any comments/experiences on Big Brother > vs Nagios? I'm looking to monitor about 60 servers (Solaris & > Windows), and our network devices. I had been set on BB4, but > recently learned about Nagios. So I'm looking for some help from the > group. > > Thanks! > Shane -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
