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["Niels Dettenbach (Syndicat IT&Internet)" <nd AT syndicat.com>]

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...just in addition:

Tobi Oetiker - the developer of RRDtool vs former MRTG - the "main part" of 
smokeping - wrotes the following about smokeping compared to nagios:

"In fact, if you only want to measure latency (so you don't need a full 
network monitoring system like Opennms or Nagios) I always recommend 
smokeping."

This is the best summary about this question/topic from my view as wrong 
decisions are often in cases to choose the right monitoring solution for the 
right monitoring scenario.

Smokeping is fine just for graphing performance or latency informations - but 
monitoring (or even manage) network / service availability is not the target 
of tools like smokeping or cacti (even if cacti offers such as very "basic" 
functionality). The major goal of a network monitor is to measure / test 
services or service constellations if they appear / operate in defined 
borders / limits (working yes/no, response time windows, service flappings 
etc.) and alarm the right persons in the right situations if required and 
give a current view of the maintained state of a network topology - means 
what is(nt) going where and why (not).

If you just still feel faced to scalability borders with smokeping this is 
another pro for a out of the box highly scalable and intelligent network 
monitoring tool like nagios or others. Why try to solve any problems if you 
still have the choice to use a solution not limited such wise?

Setting up nagios is not more difficult as setting up smokeping - if you use 
ready to run appliances this is much easier.

Just my two cents...


best regards,


Niels.


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Niels Dettenbach
Syndicat IT&Internet
http://www.syndicat.com
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