[74106] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Kinsella)
Tue Sep 14 16:00:19 2004
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 12:59:41 -0700
From: John Kinsella <jlk@thrashyour.com>
To: "Claydon, Tom" <Tom.Claydon@DobsonTelco.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: John Kinsella <jlk@thrashyour.com>
In-Reply-To: <0E01363A875D25439211F10E850316C776D28F@entmail.dobsontelco.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 02:47:45PM -0500, Claydon, Tom wrote:
> I'm looking for open-source alternatives for network management, such as
> Nagios or Big Brother. We are currently using WhatsUp Gold, and would
> like to move to something more flexible (and not running on a Windows
> platform). Something that has email/paging capabilities, and can process
> SNMP traps would be a plus for us as well.
Christ, WhatsUp Gold...that's giving me flashbacks!
Have you checked out...
http://www.nagios.org
http://www.bb4.org ?
:)
I suspect what you might be looking for is something like OpenNMS,
http://www.opennms.org
There's a few other packages out there, but IMHO they all suck in one
way or another.
John
