On Jan 3, 2008, at 14:07, Nicholas Tang wrote:
One note: Zenoss is not nearly as useful if you don't use snmp heavily - we run snmpd on every server and use that to monitor 99% of the stuff in the environment, and so it has been fantastic. We've been moving checks from ssh (w/ keys) based checks to snmp based checks and haven't had any real problems.
On a related note: do people find SNMP or agent-based systems "better"? Or, what are the trade-offs between the two?
Some things (network equipment) can only have SNMP, so that's the only way to collect resource and statistical data from them, but for Windows and Unix-y hosts, is there a difference? (I believe some FOSS monitoring software also supports Windows' WMI.)
Thanks for any info / war stories.