Nagios was designed as a daemon to monitor itself on its own server. It
relies on Nagios extensions like nrpe to transfer data back from remote
servers.
Configuration is extremely complicated in Nagios as compared to Xymon. You
can get a Xymon server up and running much more quickly than a Nagios server
because the Xymon client does so much of the work for you out of the box. By
the same token, getting a Xymon client monitored is very simple, just
installing the application and starting it up immediately gets you a host of
standard system monitors like disk, memory, CPU and connectivity. Nagios is
not so quick.
When it comes down to writing non-standard monitors they are as easy as each
other although at the end of the day, as mentioned by Johan, Xymon can send
large packets of data back, Nagios currently can't…
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From: user-ccc3871158b0@xymon.invalid
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Sent: 01 December 2010 18:40
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [xymon] Compare Xymon and Nagios
some groups in my company start to use Nagios.
Has anyone used it..
Can anyone give the feedback regarding the Nagios. Pro or Con are welcome.
I need that information to defend my choice of Xymon.
Thanks
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