<div dir="ltr"><div>2.5 cents,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Both work and do good jobs of what they do. Feature sets have diverged a little since the split; understandably. Make sure you're familiar with the current differences.</div><div><br></div><div>Observium has better overall hardware support and feature set still; in my opinion. And it still appears to have a larger user base/community and more active development (I believe).</div><div><br></div><div>That's balanced against Adam's general attitude, which is and should be concerning for continuity reasons if nothing else, and more specifically his approach to development/feature requests/patch acceptance.</div><div><br></div><div>But it works well and we're continuing to pay for the professional subscription.</div><div><br></div><div>It was comforting to see the copyright transferred to Observium Ltd; giving the project a chance that it may yet grow into a decent commercial offering.</div><div><br></div><div>But it's nice knowing LibreNMS is a good alternative if it all ends badly.</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-Colin</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 August 2016 at 12:10, Mike Taylor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mtaylor@totalteam.co.nz" target="_blank">mtaylor@totalteam.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>I should clarify, there's nothing wrong with either product<br>
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</span><div><div class="h5"><div>On 29/08/16 14:08, Mike Taylor wrote:<br>
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<p>We switched to LibreNMS from Observium, and Libre runs just
fine.</p>
<p>We wanted to give back to the project, but chose to go with a
product whose license was more open than the Observium product.</p>
<p>That, and it looked like the Observium owner was having a
permanent meltdown and being unpleasant in IRC and email.</p>
<p>5cents worth :-)</p>
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<p>Mike</p>
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<div>On 29/08/16 14:01, Samual Jackson
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<p dir="ltr">I've been using Observium at home for quite a
while, I tried LibreNMS but found it wasn't as easy to use and
often stopped polling devices. Observium has been reliable for
me working from the start, plus alerting recently came to the
free Observium edition.</p>
<p dir="ltr">It would be worth setting them both up and
comparing directly, LibreNMS does seem to be updated a lot
more often so they may have fixed a lot of my issues.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Cheers,<br>
Sam</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 29 Aug 2016 11:04 AM, "Dino Sosic"
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi guys,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Has anyone used both of these?
Can you tell me why you would prefer one over the
other? Please don’t go into the whole discussion
about the owner of Observium. I just want to know
which one would you say is better, and why?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Regards,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dino</p>
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