Re: Slightly [OT] Network Monitoring/Alerting tools

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Adam Hough wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Mark Haney <mhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I know this has been bandied about by every n00b about once every couple of
>> months, but hear me out.
>>
>> I'm no n00b and I'm in the awkward position to try to find a potential
>> replacement for our Proprietary monitoring solution (SMARTS if anyone is
>> familiar with it.)  We run SMARTS along with Nagios and several home grown
>> scripts, but my boss has this itch to find something that might potentially
>> replace SMARTS, but give him a nice GUI to work with.
>>
>> I've used Nagios and I like it.  Also BB4.  But what else is out there that
>> is new or relatively new, that does network monitoring and alerting?
>>
>> We need something like Nagios, SNMP, port monitoring, interface monitoring
>> on our core routers, etc.  WE also need something really granular for
>> alerting via text or email so we don't get deluged with messages at night
>> for things that aren't critical.
>>
>> Has anyone used (or is using) something not that many not be well known but
>> works well that they can recommend for me to take a look at?
>>
>> I've googled until I'm sick of it, and nothing I've picked out really
>> strikes me as adequate for our needs.  So now I'm turning to the Fedora
>> community for ideas.
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> Mark Haney
>> Sr. Systems Administrator
>> ERC Broadband
>> (828) 350-2415
>>
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> 
> 
> There is almost to many to list that are out there.
> * Hobbit ( a open source BB clone)
> * Nagios  (Nagios 3 has been released as stable now.  You can get an
> fedora 10 rpm of it and edit it to recompile it on RHEL5/centos5
> easily as the plugins for nagios seem to be forward/backwards
> compatable))
> * OpenNMS (I know the Networking group at LSU uses this or did when I
> worked there)
> * Zabbix
> * Cacti (for if you just want an something that that is a front end of
> RRDtool to replace mrtg / ganglia)
> 
> I would have to recommend that is you are running a large network to
> take a look at OpenNMS though I honestly have not had to deal with it
> for over a year now.
> 

Also, Groundwork Open Source is a VERY nice front end for Nagios:
http://www.groundworkopensource.com/


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Doug Stewart
Senior Systems Administrator/Web Applications Developer
Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs
dstewart@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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