Not sure what problems you're having with Nagios but my office was originally using Big Brother which the previous admin regime had installed before being handed over to our department to manage. Our team found BB to be a complete and utter pain in the ass so we removed it and replaced it with Netsaint. Now that Nagios is out we're working to migrate our configuration from Netsaint -> Nagios, as well I'm part of the Nagios Plugin development and working to make the plugins AF-independent as our office requires the ability to monitor IPv4 and IPv6 hosts and services... With escalation schemes, contact groups, service & host dependencies, planned downtime/outages and configurable notification methods we have found Netsaint/Nagios to be great. We have far less false-positive outage alerts than with BigBrother which makes us pay more attention to the notifications when they are sent out. With BB we would procmail them to a folder and ignore them because there were always so many. As for there not being any DEB for Nagios, there are several Nagios DEBs in unstable (nagios-text, nagios-pgsql and nagios-mysql). Currently there is no stable release of the Nagios Plugins (latest release has been 1.3beta2) but the plugin API has not changed so the netsaint-plugins package still works with Nagios. Not sure what configuration/installation issues you're having but I haven't had anything not work with the default configuration and ours is now fairly highly customized... Jeremy On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 02:59:26PM +0000, gabe wrote: > I would like to know what ppl think is the best package for monitor > servers, at my last work place they were installing "mon". In my new > job they use Nagios, which I'm not to sure about due to the fact that > installation / configuration goes wrong. Most importantly there's no > deb package for Nagios which makes me not wanna use it in the first place. > > Any comments or thoughts welcomed > > -- > > Gabriel Granger > > +---------------------------------------------+ > | .~. | > | /V\ L I N U X - Debian | > | // \\ The force is strong in this one | > | /( )\ | > | ^^-^^ | > +---------------------------------------------+ > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmaster@lists.debian.org
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