Nagios XI ReviewIt does exactly what we need: Alert us when something is wrong
We use Nagios because it does exactly what we need: Alert us when
something is wrong and (with PNP) show some trend to figure out when or
maybe how the problem started. The graphical output is for sure not
state of the art, but we are not artists but rather techs ;) As a hosting
business we have quite a homogenous infrastructure and use mostly snmp
for fetching data in our own scripts. Once the basic setup for Nagios
is done it is quite easy to automatically script new hosts when you add
new machines or delete the old ones. However your choice might be
different if you have to monitor IT of various customers with totally
different infrastructure.
And finally there are apps for android, iPhone, etc so with just one look at your phone you see if everything is well.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Oct 27 2013
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CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
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Nagios is a very useful tool for system administrators, which provide good monitoring for network and servers. It's free and from my point of view it's fast and efficient. Nagios is stable and has many plugins available for monitoring. The software is robust, but, as a con, is an absolute pain to configure it. There is a very intuitive dashboard page that the administrator can leave open on an extra monitor to view at any given time and it will even rotate between different pre-selected views if the administrator likes that.