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I've been a longtime supporter of Nagios (and more recently Icinga) and Cacti, but I've become extremely frustrated with the complexity it takes to manage extremely large installations. It usually starts out fine but when you've got a lot of people in it, it gets messy. Nagios also should have built in graphing and tie in Cacti to Nagios is messy at best. Recently I checked out Groundworks (gwos.com) and was impressed with their ability to tie in a lot of different open source tools into a single system. But their price nearly gave me a heart attack. Has anyone used and recommend some of the lesser known Open Source monitoring/trending/alerting systems out there such as Zabbix, PandoraFMS, OpenNMS, Zenoss, etc. I'm looking for the ability to easily write/port Nagios plugins and have a collection of standard ones for both Linux and Windows, reporting/trending, ability to create useful dashboards for a NOC, and my biggest is the ability like Groundworks to have an agent that when a new node comes online after imaging checks into the server and based on hostname (using regex) automatically add itself to a hostgroup and start monitoring the appropriate resources. Matt
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