I've been working for the last week on implementing Zenoss to
replace Nagios and Cacti. Individually Nagios and Cacti are pretty
good at what they do, but they don't integrate well.
Nagios is primarily an availability monitor, so it's good for
notifying you when something goes down, or a disk is filling up,
or the load average is too high. etc., but it's not so great for
monitoring performance. Nagios 1.4 uses text configuration files.
There is a templating system which can be helpful if you have a
lot of identical systems.
Cacti, on the other hand, is pretty good at monitoring
performance, as in how much bandwidth are you using, resource
utilization, and so on with nice long-term graphs using RRDtool, but
it's not so great for notifying if something is …
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