[TriLUG] Big Brother Vs Nagios was:demoing F/OSS innovation(s)

Matt Pusateri mpusateri at wickedtrails.com
Wed Sep 1 14:37:56 EDT 2004


>>If there's a regard in which some F/OSS package is better than it's
>> competitor from the
>>proprietary world, then show that.  Or maybe demonstrate to people
>>that they can, using F/OSS do things they may have thought were either
>>impossible, or prohibitively expensive.
>
> I am an expert in Big Brother system monitoring software.  I'm my opinion,
> it can complete with BMC Patrol and HP openview, and far easier to use.
> www.bb4.com.  It has a "Better than Free" license which allows
> organisations to use it for free as long as they don't directly make money
> off it.
>
> I installed and customised a site monitoring over 1500 devices on their
> network.  $4 billion biotech company.

> Craig Cook

How do you thing Big Brother compares to Nagios?



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