Argus/Pilot Comparison
ArgusPilot
Audience Ops Sysadmins
Notification Ops (ARS Business rules)
Local popup/levels 		Page/Email
Local client and central daemon
Severity 0-9 LOW->CRITICAL
Config Cfg file, auto updated from ARS none
State Change cmdline, web, ARS existing event can be downgraded
Dashboard X, java Web, vbpilot
Things monitored
  • sys stats
  • filesys
  • daemon health
  • web pages
  • SQL transactions
  • sendmail/imap
  • ping
  • sys stats
  • filesys
  • keepalive
  • misc e.g. hardware alerts,
    app monitors e.g. squidspy
  • sendmail/puremessage daemons
  • windows eventlogs, windows services, syslog
Logging Alerts syslogged Alerts syslogged
Underlying technology UDP poll UDP push
Help Yes No
Interactive Yes, e.g.
  • reread config
  • clear
  • recheck
  • retart server
  • more info
Yes (vbpilot)
  • connect to machine
  • ars hostinfo
  • (windows) bring up event log
Named host Originating only (exceptions for proxy) Any