[116124] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Opensource or Low Cost NMS for Server Hardware / Application
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Warren Kumari)
Wed Jul 22 09:08:00 2009
From: Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net>
To: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>
In-Reply-To: <0B48BA69-9044-453B-9776-BC6C5187630B@arbor.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:06:56 -0400
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
For networking stuff, see Joe Abley and Stephen Stuart's NANOG 26
Tutorial "Managing IP Networks with Free Software" -- http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog26/abstracts.php?pt=Nzg1Jm5hbm9nMjY=&nm=nanog26
Direct link to PDF: http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog26/presentations/stephen.pdf
-- it's from 2002 and so a little out of date, but still a great
read.
As for server / application / random other stuff (like printers and
ups's and IP camera and the like), Zenoss is great -- its clean,
simple, fast(ish), easy and pretty -- the last one happens to be
important for some folks (esp in the enterprise world...)
W
On Jul 22, 2009, at 12:42 AM, Roland Dobbins wrote:
>
> On Jul 22, 2009, at 11:34 AM, Stefan wrote:
>
>> WebNM + Denika + Logalot - set of
>> tools<http://www.plixer.com/products/index.php>
>
> nfdump/nfsen, Stager, RANCID, RCS, CVS, or Subversion - these should
> all be included in any list of useful open-source tools for network
> operators, IMHO.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com>
>
> Unfortunately, inefficiency scales really well.
>
> -- Kevin Lawton
>
>
