Nagios vs. System Insight Manager

[Olivier Masse]

Hi,

I have to deploy a few production HP-UX servers in a new shop which has no HP-UX systems yet. I was considering installing Nagios to handle the monitoring, but over there they seem to prefer SMI. I just checked the technical reference docs of SMI and it seems to be fairly complex if I just want to do some fault and predictive monitoring.

Do any of you have any experience with SMI? Do you like it? How much time it takes to install a good enough SIM system to monitor a few HP-UX servers, and are the default WBEM tools of any value?

Perhaps installing SIM require lots of custom work on the HP-UX server anyway, which makes nagios more interesting.

P.S. I'm only interested in monitoring, not all the remote administration stuff.

Thanks, points will be awarded.

[John Payne_2]

SIM is very easily set up. I like it. We also use Nagios for monitoring, but we plan in the near future to do some things with SIM and other things with Nagios. SIM intergrates nicely with EMS, if that's a factor.

I am using SIM for 70 HPUX machines, and we will soon use it for our Linux and Windows machines. I really enjoy allowing SIM to do the tasks 70 times for me, rather than going out and doing it all ourselves.

For the machines that nagios is only doing a ping monitor, we will move that function to SIM, and allow nagios more time for the other checks.

Hope it helps

John