[116156] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Open Source / Low Cost NMS for Server Hardware / Application
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Powell)
Thu Jul 23 10:39:32 2009
From: Marc Powell <marc@ena.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <1248289822.18828.75.camel@artoo.vvmedia.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:38:45 -0500
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jul 22, 2009, at 2:10 PM, Ray Sanders wrote:
> So for a large nationwide environment like ours, our ROI was pretty
> decent, but if you are only watching a dozen or two systems with maybe
> ten monitors each, Nagios would be the best bet.
I would disagree; nagios is not limited to small systems... We're
currently monitoring about 8500 services on 2834 routers with nagios
quite successfully and have been doing so for nearly a decade now --
we started with Netsaint. With custom scripts receiving data from our
inventory management system, Nagios config generation for 99% of the
hosts is completely automated with only a handful of special cases
that are hand-modified as needed. Our investment, both in initial/
ongoing man-hours, hardware, etc is minimal so our ROI is decent too ;)
--
Marc
