[177605] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Alerting systems, Logicmonitor and/or alternatives
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorance Martinez Cortes)
Wed Jan 28 17:31:03 2015
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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:21:56 -0500
From: Dorance Martinez Cortes <dorancemc@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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Hi Jay,
I have experience with nagios and cacti, now I'm experimenting with logic
monitor and observium. The observium is a great tool to discover your
network devices but don't have great graphics and don't have any alarm
system, but you can get a lot of information about your network devices,
connections, ip address, protocols and configurations. Logic Monitor is a
new tool for me, but without comparison with nagios, they have well
support, but some times you need time to create personal data-points
because they don't have recognising for all devices.
Nagios could require time for implementation and experience with command
line and snmp. not is a expensive tool only if you don't want pay for it.
But the nagios XI is a great tool with lot of functions, automatizaci=C3=B3=
n
process, graphics, and capacity planning. You can try with nagios xi with
network analyzer.
If you don't have budget maybe nagios core and observium can offer a great
solution.
For comercial solution, I recommend you nagios xi and nagios network
analyzer.
2015-01-28 13:06 GMT-05:00 Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>:
> I know that this topic has been kicking around for at least a decade,
> but wanted to get current opinions of other network operators. Most of
> us have explored Nagios, MRTG, and several front-ends for MRTG.
>
> We are looking into a new player in the space called Logicmonitor. They
> have a very functional and easy to navigate front end and configuration
> tool, and I very much like the look-and-feel of their product.
>
> What I don't like is that they only offer it as a cloud-based service.
> Internal probes tie in to a "collector" which we maintain. The collector
> then phones home over the Internet to their hosted service periodically
> and they remotely analyze the data and generate alerts, plot graphs, etc.
>
> From a technical standpoint this adds more points of failure in series,
> will cause missed alerts if their cloud-based service goes down (who is
> guarding the guards?) will cause false alarms if their service is still
> up but can't reach the collector, and doesn't give us a full view under
> the hood.
>
> Of course their sales guys are giving us "Our time and energy is
> dedicated to reliability" and "professionally managed multi-carrier
> highly secure data centers" language to encourage the warm fuzzies.
>
> From a scalability standpoint we incur ever-increasing recurring costs
> as we grow and add monitored devices and services.
>
> What's the collective opinion here? Is anyone using them or a similar
> service? Are there non-cloud-based alternatives that are relatively easy
> to set up and manage? We've explored Zabbix, Nagios, MRTG and its
> various wrappers, and Intermapper. Anything else new on the horizon that
> has a GUI front-end that is configurable without a lot of scripting
> experience, etc.?
>
> We would love to buy something that works for us and pay a reasonable
> price for it, but I'm not particularly interested in the equivalent of
> renting a time-share in order to monitor our networks.
>
>
> --
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