[olug] Nagios or ?

[Adam Haeder]

I did not know about Xymon, I will have to check it out, thanks. Also their
plugin site at http://www.xymonton.org/monitors (like the old BB plugin site
http://deadcat.net)

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Trent Melcher <trentm at q.com> wrote:

> Adam
>
> Have you looked at Hobbit I think it might be called Xymon now,  this was a
> fork of Big Brother many moons ago when Quest bought BigBrother and the BTF
> version stopped being worked on by the primary developers.  It is a very
> nice fork of BB and does a lot more than Bb ever did.
>
>
>
> Trent
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
> Adam
> Haeder
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 9:38 AM
> To: Omaha Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [olug] Nagios or ?
>
> I know it's old, but we've used Big Brother for the last 10 years and have
> been happy with it (bb4.org). We're a non-profit, so their licensing means
> we can use the free version (they call it BTF or Better Than Free -
> http://bb4.org/download.html). It's mostly written in perl and has a nice
> web based dashboard interface. It does all the things you mentioned you
> need
> except disabling services from the dashboard. The server does polling and
> there are client programs you install to monitor different client OSes (we
> use the Linux and Windows ones). I'm sure their commercial version has a
> lot
> more features than the free version, but I've never used it so I can't
> speak
> to it.
> Contact me off list if you want a demo of it, I can show you how we've
> customized it and what issues we've run into with it.
>
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