Re:Zabbix (Score 1)

I tried out zabbix this morning, as I'm always keen to try and improve our monitoring (we currently run a nagios 2.x system).

In-house, we only use rpm'd software, for ease of upgrading and maintenance, so I quickly found RHEL4 rpms for the various bits and loaded them up. Thats when the pain started - I found the post-rpm setup horribly broken, and gave up after an hour or so. The web frontend had to hacked to display, then the DB connection script had to be hacked for it to recognise the DB (which I also had to manually install). After all this, it started moaning about permissions, so i said f*** it.

Now, a lot of these issues may have been with the person who packaged the rpms, but for me it was a non-runner - building from source on my production servers doesn't happen.

I don't find nagios hard to configure - in fact all our admins (team of 15) find it ok, and only half of them are real linux admins, the rest are win32 background. Its object based config scheme seems pretty logical to me....