Re:From 0 to Monitoring and Alerting in 30 minutes (Score 1)

Let's not take things to extremes, and don't take my comment out of context, as you both have.

Nagios is complicated compared to many other products. The simple fact that some rather large books are available points to that fact. But as others have pointed out, it doesn't have to be that way, and as Hyperic shows. If you have two tools that have the same features, but one takes a month to install and the other a week, which do you choose? I don't shy away from a process simply because of complexity, but needless complexity is just a waste of my time. I have a lot more things to do than I will ever have time for, and most sys admins for SMB's would agree (not that large company admins don't, but they tend to have a lot more resources availablle to them.)

So now if anybody wants to get personal, come on over and we can match skills. Otherwise drop the flamebait and keep on topic.