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Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Kinsella)
Tue Sep 14 23:07:37 2004

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 20:07:04 -0700
From: John Kinsella <jlk@thrashyour.com>
To: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: John Kinsella <jlk@thrashyour.com>
In-Reply-To: <016201c49acf$65d433d0$0f02a3c0@computer>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 07:54:54PM -0700, Philippe Ombredanne wrote:
> Well I hope that we will be coming with (nexb) will not be sucking, but
> it is not production grade yet.
> Will have to wait a few more months.

Ah yes, I'm looking forward to seeing that. :)  Need beta testers?

> > I'm looking for open-source alternatives for network 
> > management, such as  Nagios or Big Brother.
> I would add to the list the excellent zabbix, just ass popular as jjfnms
> http://www.zabbix.com/features.php

Ah my bad, I did forget about Zabbix - one of my guys was just showing
it off to me a few weeks ago, too.  Does look good, I just don't see
justification for replacing our nagios setups with it. 

John

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