[12683] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [NOOP] 24x7 NOC..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Thu Oct 2 21:57:21 1997
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 18:41:25 -0700
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@priori.net>
To: "Kent W. England" <kwe@geo.net>
Cc: Steve Miller <smiller@corp.webtv.net>, nanog@merit.edu,
inet-access@earth.com
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19971002174006.006e9134@zeus.geo.net> [9710.02]
On Oct 2, "Kent W. England" <kwe@geo.net> wrote:
> You might as well do the whole nine yards. Is there a decent ISP network
> management system or is it still OpenView and a lot of utilities?
I've been playing with lots of 'em recently. Of the free
ones, only MRTG and Tkined are worth a damn -- even though
lots of people swear by NOCOL, I've been swearing at it
'cause the configuration is hard to visually parse and not
consistent across the various monitoring programs.
I'd have to say that I prefer HP Openview to Tkined, but for
what I'm doing the difference is not so great that Openview
would be worth the money.
Also, Tnm (the Tcl add-on that is used by Tkined) has lots
of useful hooks for SNMP, ping, etcetera, and can be used to
write custom stuff pretty easily. I'll be distributing some
of what I write here once I'm happy with how it functions.
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