Hi,
I have been asked to look at a monitoring solution that can be used to monitor network , servers and applications. Typically us guys in the network team have used Orion for a number of years and are quite comfortable in its use. However our team that looks after servers has used nagios particulary because they come from unix backgrounds. Our applications team dont really use anything.
My question is basically to find out what advice my colleagues on this forum can give me regarding the advantages / disadvantages of both are. Im not sure either can perform synthetic transactions which would be usefull for applications teams. Although with my limited experience with nagios given enough expertise it could be more customisable than solarwinds. Where as Solarwinds in most cases is functional out the box.
I realise this is a Solarwinds forum, but I do value the opinions of the members. For example if people moved away from nagios to orion or another tool and why.
BTW one of the other tools i have been looking into are the HP NMS suites.
Regard
Miron