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it_user111534<\/a>Linux Sysadmin at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees<\/span><\/div>
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We\'ve piloted both Nagios and Zenoss here. Since we\'re starting with nothing Nagios has met our needs well and proved to be a valuable resource almost immediately by setting up simple SSH checks for our Linux hosts and SNMP checks (ie no agent) for our Windows hosts. Zenoss just proved to be overly complicated to get metrics like up/down, disk usage, memory usage etc. Perhaps with more time it would have proved to be more functional than Nagios but the simplicity of Nagios is really appealing. <\/p>\n\n

How do you find installing and configuring Solarwinds vs. Zenoss? Is Solarwinds closer to Nagios or Zenoss? <\/p>\n\n

The one big thing I struggle with with Nagios is that our Windows admins don\'t want to SSH into a Linux host and configure monitoring by editing text files. Does Ninja include a UI for setting up monitoring of new hosts? <\/p><\/div>