> > Haven't tried, but I will.
> Please do.

I will probably have some time tonight or tomorrow to try it out.

> I haven't done the WMI stuff yet, the SNMP hasn't been what I expected
> unfortunately :(

Are you getting anything out of SNMP for Windows?  Any filesystem, processes, cpu/memory performance?

> Buddy of mine has the commercial edition and loves it (mostly for the
> python stuff).

I'm trying to convince management to buy the commercial version.  We've hacked the hell out of the core version, like implementing distributed collectors and such.

> I just want something with the basic features of Nagios, without the
> configuration nightmare of it, plus ability to do threshhold
> triggering, and to do this without me having to maintain agents on
> every type of server I have on the network.

Absolutely possible.  That's why we used it, so we didn't have to maintain agents.  Actually, mainly because our servers are validated and we can't install additional software onto them without going through ten headaches.

> Another issue I have is that Nagios seems to be really the only
> monitoring platform with a backoff procedure before firing off an
> alert, and the concept of a service (or host) flapping and suspending
> notifications for such for a short period of time.

If I'm understanding you right, you want a bit of a delay before an alert goes out?
When you set up Alerting Rules, you can say that the minimum count is a certain value.. so everytime it checks and finds that SMTP is down for example, it adds 1 to the count (this is related to its event deduplication thing).  Or you can simply set a delay in minutes, too.. which is useful for giving something a few moments to come back up on its own, or in the case of setting up an escalation procedure to send an alert to someone else if it hasn't been resolved after X minutes.

Anyways, I'm downloading the FreeBSD ISO's and will see what I can get into.

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