On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Mark Haney wrote: >> >> Les Mikesell wrote: >>> >>> Mark Haney wrote: >> >>>> >>>> We do run OpenNMS as well, and it's a good tool, but I was interested in >>>> something /like/ nagios that does monitoring and alerting. >>> >>> I'm not sure I understand the distinction or why you'd need both. OpenNMS >>> is like nagios in some ways, different in some. >>> >> >> Well, the OpenNMS version we have is older, and it's sitting on a Debian >> Sarge box that I want to blow away and install Fedora on. But that's not >> the reason for the question. We run nearly every monitoring tool out there, >> and my boss is extremely picky. He doesn't really like any of them >> completely. They all have flaws in his mind so he wants to see what else >> might be available now, that either might not have been 4 years ago, or has >> greatly improved since then. > > Well, OpenNMS has certainly improved recently and is still being developed > rapidly. Don't draw any conclusions from seeing an older version. Also, it > is very configurable. It does the obvious stuff out of the box but can be > extended in an assortment of ways. Plus, if you can use one of the packaged > versions it is much easier to install than a few years ago. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > My only beef with OpenNMS is that it is a polling type monitoring system which is fine for say network gear but I would rather have a client/server setup for servers that I want to monitor. OpenNMS from what I can tell still does not give me the flexibility that I want or need that I get from other system such as Hobbit (BB) or Nagios. Though I will admit I had not know all that much about snmp other then to make sure that it is turned off on systems I install to give bots one less attack point if they make it past my iptable rules in some manner. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
