Re: [SAGE] zenoss versus nagios

["Jeremiah Johnson" <jeremiah.johnson@xxxxxxxxx>]

You can build host and service dependencies in Nagios.  I don't know
about OpenNMS or Zenoss in this regard though.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/dependencies.html

-Jeremiah

On Feb 1, 2008 6:13 PM, David Magda <dmagda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Jan 31, 2008, at 17:47, Ray Frush wrote:
>
> > I particularly like the conclusion warning about "monitoring
> > everything".   We recently re-worked our OpenNMS installation to
> > limit what it monitors significantly.  We found, over time, that
> > when the pager goes off at 3am, it should be only for a pretty
> > short list of things.   An Network Monitoring System can quickly
> > overwhelm the SysAdmin with email.
>
> I would think that a good monitoring tool would be able build a
> dependency graph and only send an alert for what it believes is the
> root cause.
>