The difference between Cacti&nagios and Zabbix

the difference between Cacti&nagios and Zabbix

Cacti (PHP)

Collect Data

Storing data

Data display

Data analysis and alarms

Nagios (Alarm tool)

Only care about the status of normal or not

Dependent relationships

Zabbix

Collect Data

Storing data

Data display

Data analysis and alarms

The difference: Cacti uses the rotation database, the data preservation is like a circle, if 1 years uses the storage space, it will overwrite the original data, belongs to the RRD database to store the data, this is the file type database;

Zabbix can be used RDMS database, such as mysql,pgsql,oracle database can be permanently stored data for subsequent big data analysis, as well as have alarm function;

Zabbix can monitor how much 10W equipment;

Nagios does not have the data display function, only concerns the alarm function;

Zabbix:

Monitoring with SNMP

Monitoring with Agents

Monitoring with IPMI

IPMI: Many servers have their own hardware interface, Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) is an open standard hardware management interface

The difference between Cacti&nagios and Zabbix