RAID monitoring

[Marcus Bointon]

On 2 Nov 2007, at 21:22, Mike Hanby wrote:

> I use Nagios.


I don't know about anyone else, but I find nagios incredibly difficult  
and unpleasant to use. Trivial tasks like adding a node seem massively  
overcomplicated, and its policy of "do nothing out of the box" is  
really unhelpful. I once spent 4 days trying to get it to monitor 4  
nodes and send email on errors and eventually had to give up and write  
my own in about 10 mins that monitored the same stuff and sent email  
and SMS. Even when I've used working nagios setups, the displays are  
not terribly helpful, well designed or informative. Though it doesn't  
solve quite the same problem, I've found munin really good at 'just  
working' and it's really trivial to write new plugins for. I keep  
hearing about people using nagios on big installations - I figure they  
must be complete geniuses or just have lots of spare time...

Marcus
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