[Techtalk] Experiences with Nagios and/or Advanced Host Monitor?

[Michelle Murrain]

On Oct 30, 2009, at 12:59 PM, Tracey wrote:

> I have inherited some servers in a cloud space that had no monitoring
> set up. They are running Fedora Core 8, and will be upgraded to FC11.
>
> I had been reading up on Nagios. Another server admin here said he had
> issues with Nagios being buggy & had better experiences with Advanced
> Network Monitor. Do any of you have experience with any of these, good
> or bad? Are there other monitoring tools you prefer?

I've never used Advanced network monitor, so I can't compare but I  
like Nagios. It has a serious learning curve, but it's very powerful,  
and it works well for us. We use it to monitor client sites.

Peace,
Michelle
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