Thanks. Looking at the tabs, etc. more I can see that, and not sure what in fact it would take to add a threshold / up / down but my initial email was simply to say when looking at a device. The last tab is a nice alert with a bell. I didn't post w/o reading which is a big no-no, just simply had 2 things, both legit. The 2nd item I may have not gave a 100% description on, and love the fact the founder and dev's troll the list, shows great customer loyalty.
My issue was I got a response right away that made no sense with the comparison. I am a HUGE sarcastic person (as you can tell) and figured I would fire right back (the whole time with a smile), but then to get a message saying I won't help because you irritate me, that made it even better!
I was honest, the app is very polished, much cleaner than nagios which is what I am using for my current network, but without an up/down, I would simply use this in parallel, as I have graphing already just not as granular.
Help or not, adding features or not, still had a chuckle and wish them well on this product :)
Lance,
Pretty much as Adam says observium should be compared to cacti and not to nagios/icinga/zabbix/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_network_monitoring_systems that does proper alerting. Observium is great at what implies in its name observing things on the network to get a handle how things are going with regards to utilisation of resources.
Darius
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Adam Armstrong
<adama@memetic.org> wrote:
On 12/12/2012 12:00, Lance Raymond wrote:
Gee, since you were so welcoming on a 1st post, I can't resist to reply as
well.
So comparing nagios and observium is like Word and Lotus 123 huh, Word is
a word processor and Lotus 123 is a spreadsheet app, completely different
application uses.
But by definition;
Nagios is a popular open source computer system and network monitoring
software application.
Observium is a PHP/MySQL-based Network Observation and Monitoring System
Looks pretty similar to me! As for alerts, is this something that is on
the drawing board? Up/Down I would assume is part of monitoring IMO.
Observium is more like an automated Cacti. Arguing based on your own personal understanding of terminology just makes you sound crazy.
Not only that, but using such absurd semantics to try to prove me wrong and you right (even though you're wrong), utterly destroys any possiblity that I will implement any features or changes for you...
As for the "No idea what I'm talking about", well looking at all devices
there is a grey box with items to search for. There is a link that says
'Remove Search'. The link points to a
devices/format=list_detail/searchbar=hide/. I would like to see if there
was a way to completely remove (or permanently hide) that search bar.
Oh, the search box on /devices/. There isn't currently a way of permanently hiding that box (or the similar box on /ports/)
It wouldn't be hard to make it hideable, but you've been irritating enough that I don't really want to help you. Well done, good luck, have fun.
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