[BBLISA] GPL system monitoring tools? (alternatives to nagios)

[Dean Anderson]

What sort of 'wheel' do you need? What do you want to do that nagios 
doesn't do flexibly?

		--Dean

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Jeff Ambrosino wrote:

> I'm looking for suggestions for any GPL/opensource system monitoring
> tools that folks can recommend.
> 
> FYI we've been using Nagios for about 6 months now with mixed results.
>  While it works, we've had to do an awful lot of customization and
> writing our own checks (mostly application-level stuff for our
> proprietary software).
> 
> I think we would be alot happier with something simpler and more
> flexible than Nagios.  Right now it's a choice between further hacking
> of Nagios vs. "roll our own" (the latter, I think, will be much more
> maintainable over the long run).  But of course I'm looking to avoid
> reinventing the wheel as much as possible.
> 
> Any feedback or pointers are much appreciated.
> 
> thanks,
> JB
> 
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