The company I work for wanted to be able to effectively monitor our servers and so I initially looked into Zenoss and found that setting it up was quite a mission. I then came across Hyperic which has both a commercial and community release. Zenoss typically uses snmp, whilst Hyperic uses a Hyperic agent. Whilst the agent solution can have its disadvantages, Hyperic is miles easier to set up and configure. I think this is an excellent product and you should check it out. It monitors a lot more than the OS, including JBoss, Apache, MySQL etc. The auto discovery functionality is great and so is the alerting capabilities. There is no time wasted in working out how to configure the product. In addition there are excellent video tutorials on the Hyperic site.
Friday, January 23, 2009
Hyperic versus Zenoss
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Guy, while I respect your opinion we would love to help you be successful getting Zenoss up and running so you can do a proper comparison of Zenoss versus Hyperic. Feel free to drop us a line at community (at) zenoss . com and we would love to help you get running. If not we are at least glad to see you choosing open source software for your systems management needs.
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