[116157] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Open Source / Low Cost NMS for Server Hardware / Application
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Wyble)
Thu Jul 23 13:34:52 2009
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:33:58 -0700
From: Charles Wyble <charles@thewybles.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <830649D2-8895-4871-97AF-25671E212110@ena.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> 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
>
+1 / what he said
I auto generate my nagios configs from an in house asset management
system as well. It works great. Monitoring over 1k devices. We built a
custom reporting system around nagios as well.
