[116141] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Open Source / Low Cost NMS for Server Hardware / Application
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Wed Jul 22 14:41:39 2009
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:40:21 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Matthew Huff <mhuff@ox.com>
In-Reply-To: <483E6B0272B0284BA86D7596C40D29F9D122128063@PUR-EXCH07.ox.com>
Cc: "'nanog@nanog.org'" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Matthew Huff wrote:
> Some of our requirements:
>
> . Native agents for Windows 2003/2008, Linux, Linux x86_64, Solaris Sparc and Solaris x86_64. Either binaries or source code.
> . Ability to send alerts via email, pager and/or snmp
> . Monitoring of OS properties like memory, disk, cpu, etc...
> . Ability to extend agents with scripting to allow monitoring of custom services
> . Plug-in architecture for third-party add-ons
> . Reliable Architecture
> . Reasonable user interface
> . Non-blocking polling
> . Active Project (New Releases on regular basis and have existed for a reasonable period)
You probably have the list of the most commonly used. Each has good and
bad points. A few of them I believe are limited on using agents and
supporting external scripts. Several are considered Nagios on steroids,
using a Nagios core wrappered in a bunch of other OSS. Several, like
Zenoss are particular about the primarily monitoring system (though
agents might run on any OS).
Jack
