DM vs Proxies - notification?
I'm looking to replace an existing Nagios deployment of 3 main sites, each of which has its own monitor server. Communications between the 3 sites are not always reliable, so I need to have each site be able to generate its own notifications, but I also want centralised configuration because we know, from our experience with Nagios, that supporting multiple independent configurations for the infrastructure is a major waste of time.
I know that this is not possible with the current capabilities of Zabbix -- you can either have central configuration, and use Proxies, or you can have independent notifications, and use Nodes, but you can't have a unified configuration managed centrally with nodes.
Are there any plans to add either notification capabilities to Proxies, or permit centralised configuration (and dashboard) using DM Nodes? This would make Zabbix a serious contender in the Enterprise monitoring space against Hyperic, Zenoss and so on.
I've considered using MySQL triggers and DB replication to try and add this into the 1.8.x, but I want to know if it's worth my time to do this, or whether I should just give up and go for a commercial monitoring system.
I know that this is not possible with the current capabilities of Zabbix -- you can either have central configuration, and use Proxies, or you can have independent notifications, and use Nodes, but you can't have a unified configuration managed centrally with nodes.
Are there any plans to add either notification capabilities to Proxies, or permit centralised configuration (and dashboard) using DM Nodes? This would make Zabbix a serious contender in the Enterprise monitoring space against Hyperic, Zenoss and so on.
I've considered using MySQL triggers and DB replication to try and add this into the 1.8.x, but I want to know if it's worth my time to do this, or whether I should just give up and go for a commercial monitoring system.
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