In the orchestra, you need different instruments, musicians and a Maestro who knows the whole partition and can render it. Nagios is not playing like Cacti, MOM, Quest, etc...Even if they play in the same sandbox....I mean here that in your environment, you may already have some monitoring solutions specific to each System Management disciplines: Database, Servers, Network devices,....They have all their own user, admin & configuration consoles and may be also their own agents. You need an integration of all these Monitoring solutions ( at least the most important, valuable and easy ones). If you drop all the monitoring solutions and go for a single one from scratch, it will sound like a ring tone in the hall of an airport at 10:00AM...You need a chief, a manager...a Maestro...an Event Manager (centralized or distributed if needed). The role of this Event Manager is to get the most valuable monitoring information from these monitoring tools and to consolidate all these alerts using a single syntax & semantics....Consolidation: enrichment, correlation, filtering, reaction... of the alerts reported by the monitoring tools to an Event Management Solution sounds like repeating again and again with the orchestra for the D day of the concert. This Event Management Solution will be the Maestro. All the musician (sysadmins) will recognize their partition and their instrument (their monitoring tool) when the music will play => Investigate an Enterprise Event Management Solution OVER your current monitoring instruments. Look for the most flexible (easy to integrate..easy scripting), the one able to speak through multiple and SIMPLE protocols. The one that will serve you on a gold plate the root cause of all your troubles when the poultry will make some noise. There are some of them on the market (Open world included).
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In the orchestra, you need different instruments, musicians and a Maestro who knows the whole partition and can render it. Nagios is not playing like Cacti, MOM, Quest, etc...Even if they play in the same sandbox....I mean here that in your environment, you may already have some monitoring solutions specific to each System Management disciplines: Database, Servers, Network devices,....They have all their own user, admin & configuration consoles and may be also their own agents. You need an integration of all these Monitoring solutions ( at least the most important, valuable and easy ones). If you drop all the monitoring solutions and go for a single one from scratch, it will sound like a ring tone in the hall of an airport at 10:00AM...You need a chief, a manager...a Maestro...an Event Manager (centralized or distributed if needed). The role of this Event Manager is to get the most valuable monitoring information from these monitoring tools and to consolidate all these alerts using a single syntax & semantics ....Consolidation: enrichment, correlation, filtering, reaction... of the alerts reported by the monitoring tools to an Event Management Solution sounds like repeating again and again with the orchestra for the D day of the concert. This Event Management Solution will be the Maestro. All the musician (sysadmins) will recognize their partition and their instrument (their monitoring tool) when the music will play => Investigate an Enterprise Event Management Solution OVER your current monitoring instruments. Look for the most flexible (easy to integrate..easy scripting), the one able to speak through multiple and SIMPLE protocols. The one that will serve you on a gold plate the root cause of all your troubles when the poultry will make some noise. There are some of them on the market (Open world included).
Music Maestro !