"We started our first Zenoss article with the full intention of
completely replacing Nagios for host and service monitoring. We are
happy to report Zenoss is, in fact, fully up to the task. Here's
how the last hurdles, monitoring services and alerting, were
implemented.
"It can't be all peachy news, can it? No, not quite. Configuring
service monitoring in Zenoss is semi-frustrating. Not that it's
difficult to do, in fact, the only reason it's frustrating at all
is because you're quite tempted to implement all kinds of fanciness
that Nagios cannot. If you stick to the straight ping-test and
checks of basic services, like HTTP, Zenoss almost configures
itself..."
