Zenoss versus Zabbix

[Robert Brockway]

On Sat, 24 Apr 2010, John Miles wrote:

> That being said, I think I may be missing just one or two things to get that
> sort of thing working within Zenoss.
> What I suspect is that much of this data can be easily extracted using
> snmpwalk. I simply need to collect the correct MIBs and OIDs to feed to it.

It sounds like your core requirements are a little different to mine.  I'd 
also like the ability to easily catalogue but I consider it secondary to 
good performance and alert monitoring in the one app.

> The Zabbix chattiness is a bit concerning, given I have a VPN connection
> into my customer's network, which in some cases is branch offices in Hong
> Kong or London. I also am in the business of security and network
> monitoring/logging which means, I'd better be filtering a GB of my traffic
> out of the logs.

There may be a way to have several Zabbix servers, one at each site, and 
have then able to store data centrally.   The documentation didn't seem to 
make the method obvious.

Zabbix was doing checks every few seconds which I found to be way over the 
top although it can be slowed down.

Collectd also defaults to one check every 10 seconds but armed with my 
experiences with Zabbix I slowed it down right away.  Figuring out how to 
tell collectd to check more slowly was more obvious than with most apps. 
In general configuring collectd is turning out to be fairly obvious.

Cheers,

Rob

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