[75037] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Monitoring System - Recommendations?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Dills)
Thu Oct 28 14:48:07 2004
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 14:46:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andy Dills <andy@xecu.net>
To: Charlie Khanna - NextWeb <charlie@nextweb.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20041028070140.A3264B2053@segue.merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Charlie Khanna - NextWeb wrote:
> Hi - I was interested in finding out what software applications other ISPs
> are using for network monitoring? For example:
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> 1) Overall network health - uptime reports
http://www.nagios.org
> 2) Backup router config automatically
http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/
> 3) Bandwidth reporting (or integration with an MRTG-type app)
http://cricket.sourceforge.net/
> 4) SNMP trap support (BGP/OSPF session drops - emails out)
http://www.snmptt.org/
http://www.nagios.org
> 5) Database back end (port info into or over to other apps)
>
> I'm just looking for something well rounded for a small ISP. I've heard
> about OpenNMS and other apps but I'd like to get everyone's feedback.
> Thanks!
Nothing all in one place, that I'm aware of. But with a little work, you
could probably integrate it all into nagios. After all, you can make the
host names or descriptions URLs that link to bandwidth and error graphs or
other tools.
Andy
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