Re: Monitoring Tools

[Curtis Maurand <cmaurand () xyonet com>]

 On 8/19/2010 4:23 PM, Phil Regnauld wrote:
>         <hat employer=other>
>         While developing our own monitoring product, we've had to deal with
>         various constraints from the customer side, for instance pharmaceutical
>         companies where there was no way installing an agent on PLC machines would
>         pass internal audit, without having the entire system re-validated (we're
>         talking FDA-validated medication production here).
>         </hat>
>
>         But often, SNMPD ships with or is available as an optional base
>         component (Windows, most UNIXes) and it's easier to convince the IT
>         suits.  Go figure.
>
>         Oh, and it avoided us having to install an agent on 1000+ servers :)
But the configuration learning curve for SNMP is very steep indeed.

--Curtis