[177607] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Alerting systems, Logicmonitor and/or alternatives
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Raymond Burkholder)
Wed Jan 28 18:15:50 2015
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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 19:15:30 -0400
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> What's the collective opinion here? Is anyone using them or a similar ser=
vice?
> 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.?
Try OMD. It packages a python wrapper called check_mk around Nagios and ad=
ds on charts via an already integrated pnp4nagios.=20=20
The guys doing check_mk have done an amazing job of harnessing the power of=
Nagios through the use of configuration files which nicely minimizes the a=
mount of work necessary for getting things monitored, while maximizing how =
things are grouped and structured.
Since I like it so much, I'm in the process of migrating our monitoring fro=
m a combination of NagiosXI, Observium, and Cacti over to the OMD package.=
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It has fast agents for monitoring vsphere. Has native agents for Linux and=
Windows. And can do SNMP. And has good customization for those who want =
more done that what is supplied out of the box.
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> 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 re=
nting a
> time-share in order to monitor our networks.
Check_mk has support and professional services available. It is open sourc=
e for those who wish to go the DIY route.
Raymond
blog.raymond.burkholder.net
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