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Fra: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] På
vegne af Scot Kreienkamp
Sendt: 20. oktober 2011 15:11
Til: Gore, David W (David); Vernon Everett; Xymon mailinglist
Emne: Re: [Xymon] Xymon vs Solarwinds
I've used both, although I've got little experience with Solarwinds.
what I know of it you already hit the nail on the head. Great for SNMP,
and
that's the only way to poll. So if you have a system where you can't
turn on
SNMP, or the stats you want are unavailable via SNMP, then you can't
monitor it. Solarwinds is like any commercial product. You can do what
they
allow you to do and that's about it. Xymon is infinitely extendable due
to
Henrik's efforts in many areas and his early design decisions. That's
why I run
it. Specifically in my case, there is no built in way to monitor an F5
load
balancer in Solarwinds. While that is also true of Xymon, I did spend a
few
days writing a script that would interrogate an F5 and report all kinds
of
information back on its nodes, pools, and VIPs. That would be MUCH more
difficult to integrate with Solarwinds. Also, while nobody has asked on
the
list yet, I would offer it if someone did. Community is a good thing to
have
. On the other hand, the lack of professional support is frustrating at
times,
so I wouldn't completely discount them wanting a product with
professional
support.
Also, it looks like at least one company has endeavored to professionally
support Xymon, so that may be one way to nullify the support argument.
http://www.xymonmonitoring.com
Scot Kreienkamp
user-462cf0b6d846@xymon.invalid
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From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com]
On Behalf Of Gore, David W (David)
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 7:35 AM
To: Vernon Everett; Xymon mailinglist
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Xymon vs Solarwinds
May be a bit beyond the point at this time Vernon but you may want to
point
your client to this page:
http://support.sas.com/rnd/emi/Xymon/index.html
If Xymon is good enough for a billion dollar company perhaps it is good
enough for your client. Perhaps making smart decisions on how they spend
their money is part of the reason they are billion dollar company.
I have never heard of SolarWinds but we are just a support group with no
money so there is no reason to look beyond Xymon.
~David
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com]
On Behalf Of Vernon Everett
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 03:17
To: Xymon mailinglist
Subject: [Xymon] Xymon vs Solarwinds
Hi guys
I have a client that dislikes open source software. They feel it's "out
of
control", there's no support, and no backup.
They prefer something where they can get "professional" support, and
licensed software and all the crap we have all heard before.
Somebody at the top, decided that SolarWinds is the corporate standard.
From what I have read, it's SNMP based, so great for network, and stuff
running SNMP, but not so good for anything else.
Has anybody had any hands-on experience with both Solarwinds and Xymon,
who can give me a short breakdown of the advantages and disadvantages of
Solarwinds compared to Xymon?
Regards
Vernon
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