[128898] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Monitoring Tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Eisenberg)
Thu Aug 19 14:53:17 2010
From: Nathan Eisenberg <nathan@atlasnetworks.us>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:52:41 +0000
In-Reply-To: <974999.79433.qm@web39501.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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> Am looking for an opensource network monitoring tool with ability to crea=
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> different views for different users.
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> Regards,Jacob
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Just to add another opinion to the pot, I've used zabbix in several large e=
nvironments, and I like it a lot. The developer team is decently sized, an=
d very responsive to requests and feedback (they operate a commercial 'supp=
ort' model for the platform, so working on the system is literally their da=
y job - as George pointed out, this is often a problem).
Zabbix also supports distributed monitoring, which is very handy for scalin=
g or for monitoring multiple locations without dealing with VPNS and the li=
ke (or if you have places you need to monitor behind NATs!). Its major wea=
kness at the moment is the weak support for SNMP traps (works great in poll=
ing mode, though), so you will want a separate simple system for catching t=
raps. In my opinion, that's just fine, because statistics/trending/basic r=
esource alerting/etc are best kept separate from things like "OMG one of my=
powersupplies is dead!!11one".
Also supports IPMI, which is nice if you have IPMI deployed. :-)
Best Regards,
Nathan Eisenberg
