High Availability monitors for UNIX?

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

As some of you know, I am looking for another job.  I just interviewed at
a company today called  Availant (http://www.availant.com).  The main
product is a rules-based high availability system watchdog.  They
currently only support NT, and want me (and about 5 others) to port it to
some flavor of *NIX to be named soon.

They admitted they went the easy, non-portable route when they did the NT
version, and they used almost every Microsoft-specific technology out
there, including COM, DCOM, XML DCOM, EIEIO...  I have no reason to
believe they won't try to do another rush job, so I am inclined to tell
them I am not interested, but there is a larger issue.  Aren't there
plenty of well-designed, powerful *NIX system monitoring products out
there already?  Aren't there even several open source ones?  So is there
really a market for a new one that's bloated with too much technology
(using CORBA instead of COM, etc)?

I would like to hear from anyone who has experience with such a product to
see if my assumption is right.

Thanks.
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