[74199] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Kuhtz)
Fri Sep 17 09:38:53 2004
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:32:15 -0400
From: "Christian Kuhtz" <christian.kuhtz@BELLSOUTH.COM>
To: "Alexei Roudnev" <alex@relcom.net>,
"Michael Smith" <mksmith@noanet.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <089c01c49c8b$5db8dd00$6401a8c0@alexh>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
What makes syslog so much more reliable in your opinion? There's no =
ability
to find lost messages or have guaranteed delivery. At least not on =
514/udp.
If you can toss a trap, you can toss a syslog message.
That is, unless I've lost my mind this morning and need to go get more
coffee.
On 9/17/04 3:53 AM, "Alexei Roudnev" <alex@relcom.net> wrote:
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> I always tried to avoid any deal with SNMP TRAPS as most unreliable =
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> unconvenient way of alerting (unfortunately, it can not be avoided =
totally).
> We use 'syslog' (syslog-ng + home written syslog analyzers + =
copmmercial
> soft, sometimes) when possible.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Smith" <mksmith@noanet.net>
> To: <nanog@merit.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 9:10 AM
> Subject: RE: Open-Source Network Management Tools
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>> 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.
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>> Recommendations?
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>> Thanks.
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> I'd like to expand the question by asking, what Open-Source
> applications do people use for SNMP Trap collecting and alarming?
> We're very happy with Nagios for polling, but we have a lot of
> optical components that send information via Traps that then needs to
> be culled, trimmed and analyzed.
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> Thanks,
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> Mike
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