1- Cacti is nicer than mrtg for graphs.<br>2- To answer the question, for system/service health monitoring, nagios is tough to beat. Unfortunately the learning curve/setup is not trivial. The daemon will fail on config errors. To fully utilize it you need to set up server groups, services, dependencies, and monitor groups. Once it's set up, add-on's and changes are pretty easy and you will have a great monitoring solution.
<br><br>--Dennis<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/26/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Darin Perusich</b> <<a href="mailto:Darin.Perusich@cognigencorp.com">Darin.Perusich@cognigencorp.com</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">cacti is much nicer, i use it here. i was thinking that MRTG would be<br>easier to setup and the learning curve is much less the cacti.
<br><br>David J. Andruczyk wrote:<br>> cacti is nicer...;) <a href="http://www.raxnet.net/products/cacti/">http://www.raxnet.net/products/cacti/</a> More<br>> powerful than MRTG in my opinion<br>><br><br>--<br>Darin Perusich
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