[116155] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Open Source / Low Cost NMS for Server Hardware / Application
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrey Gordon)
Thu Jul 23 09:57:51 2009
From: Andrey Gordon <andrey.gordon@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <635D17EE85D35A49B8F278998E6C340404A98B96D2@EXVS.dev.oati.local>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:56:33 -0400
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May I also mention InterMapper from Dartware. Very low price solution.
Doesn't do well with trending and graphing out of the box (use RRD to
get data out of it), but I like the live maps, platform independence
and ease of creating new probes. I try to use SNMP wherever possible,
but it can take pass parameters to an external script and analyze it's
output as well.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Huff [mailto:mhuff@ox.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 1:08 PM
> To: 'nanog@nanog.org'
> Subject: Open Source / Low Cost NMS for Server Hardware /
> Application Monitoring
>
> I apologize for not starting a new thread before, I didn't realize
> that the nanog mailing list created a thread-index rather than using
> the subject.
>
> Even though NANOG is primarily for network operators, I know that a
> number of members work in NOCs where there is also monitoring of
> servers/applications. I would appreciate it if anyone has
> suggestions about monitoring systems that would be applicable to our
> environment. We have a large number of custom applications on a
> large number of hosts including Windows 2003/2008, Linux x86/x86_64
> and Solaris Sparc/x86_64. We are looking for a better way of
> monitoring our environment. We are looking for recommendations for
> opensource or low-cost. We would prefer solutions where the basic
> monitoring is ready out of the box. Native agents with custom
> scripting would be highly desired (rather than SNMP/DMI/WMI polling).
>
> 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)
>
> Based on our research and feedback from NANOG, we have put a
> preliminary list of product to evaluate:
>
> Hyperic http://www.hyperic.com/
> OpenNMS http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Main_Page
> opsview http://www.opsview.org/
> osimius http://www.osmius.net/en/
> PandoraFMS http://pandorafms.org/
> Zabbix http://www.zabbix.com/
> Groundwork http://www.groundworkopensource.com/
> Nagios http://www.nagios.org
> Zenoss http://zenoss.com
> OpManager http://www.manageengine.com
> Orion http://www.solarwinds.com/products/orion/
> BigBrother http://bb4.com/
> Argus http://argus.tcp4me.com/
> Xymon http://www.xymon.com
> Spiceworks http://www.spiceworks.com/
> ICINGA http://www.icinga.org
>
> ----
> Matthew Huff | One Manhattanville Rd
> OTA Management LLC | Purchase, NY 10577
> http://www.ox.com | Phone: 914-460-4039
> aim: matthewbhuff | Fax: 914-460-4139
>
>
>
>
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