[161332] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Intermapper vs NetBrain vs some other for NMS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Negro)
Fri Mar 8 12:05:25 2013
From: Jeffrey Negro <jnegro@advance.net>
To: Ben Bartsch <uwcableguy@gmail.com>, NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 16:59:47 +0000
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I've always had a love/hate relationship with Cacti for this type of thing=
=2E If you have the Monitor, Threshold, and Weathermap plugins installed, =
it's very extensible and would probably meet your needs well=2E Weathermap=
has a decent in-app designer that has a Visio feel=2E The hate part comes=
when dealing with its poller and RRD processing, which are a bit of a pain=
to troubleshoot when they go on the fritz=2E Also, it has a bit of a lear=
ning curve, mainly due to the extensibility it allows, and initially gettin=
g it going takes some work (some Linux CLI skills)=2E I'm not sure how it =
compares to NetBrain or Intermapper, but Cacti is open source and doesn't h=
ave a commercial support option=2E Not sure if that's something you're loo=
king for, just FYI=2E =0D=0A=0D=0A-- Jeff=0D=0A=0D=0A-----Original Message-=
----=0D=0AFrom: Ben Bartsch [mailto:uwcableguy@gmail=2Ecom] =0D=0ASent: Fri=
day, March 08, 2013 11:38 AM=0D=0ATo: NANOG=0D=0ASubject: Intermapper vs Ne=
tBrain vs some other for NMS=0D=0A=0D=0AHi all:=0D=0A=0D=0AI'm looking for =
information anyone might have comparing Intermapper to NetBrain for NMS=2E =
Stuff like devices up/down, interface utilization, building maps for docum=
entation, etc=2E IMO, Intermapper works great, when it works=2E Tech supp=
ort has been slow and often cannot fix the problems, not to mention they re=
lease updates about once every other week=2E=0D=0A=0D=0AAnyone familiar wit=
h any similar products? We are presently evaluating NetBrain and it seems =
really nice=2E We really like the Visio-like aspect of it=2E=0D=0A=0D=0ATh=
anks!=0D=0A=0D=0A-Ben=0D=0A------------------------------------------------=
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