Looking at ZenOSS to compliment our OpenView NNM system. So far has been pretty simple to get up and running and the support community is pretty responsive to questions. We have cacti in our environment and it works great for pulling bandwidth, CPU, interface errors, mem utilization. the reportit plugin in particular is great for reporting bandwidth utilization for business hours. -- Mike On Aug 19, 2010, at 3:03 PM, Scott Berkman wrote:
The last time I looked, my main issue with Zabbix was that it required (or greatly preferred) their proprietary agent on every host. This may have changed.
-Scott
-----Original Message----- From: Nathan Eisenberg [mailto:nathan@atlasnetworks.us] Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 2:53 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Monitoring Tools
Am looking for an opensource network monitoring tool with ability to create different views for different users.
Regards,Jacob
Just to add another opinion to the pot, I've used zabbix in several large environments, and I like it a lot. The developer team is decently sized, and very responsive to requests and feedback (they operate a commercial 'support' model for the platform, so working on the system is literally their day job - as George pointed out, this is often a problem).
Zabbix also supports distributed monitoring, which is very handy for scaling or for monitoring multiple locations without dealing with VPNS and the like (or if you have places you need to monitor behind NATs!). Its major weakness at the moment is the weak support for SNMP traps (works great in polling mode, though), so you will want a separate simple system for catching traps. In my opinion, that's just fine, because statistics/trending/basic resource alerting/etc are best kept separate from things like "OMG one of my powersupplies is dead!!11one".
Also supports IPMI, which is nice if you have IPMI deployed. :-)
Best Regards, Nathan Eisenberg
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