Eric Gauthier wrote:
Hello,
As for server / application / random other stuff (like printers and ups's and IP camera and the like), Zenoss is great -- its clean, simple, fast(ish), easy and pretty -- the last one happens to be important for some folks (esp in the enterprise world...)
We've looked at ZenOSS but couldn't get it to model the network.
From what we can tell, it couldn't handle the full routing table on our core routers (there are six). If someone has successfully done this, can you contact me off list?
Eric :)
I like NMIS. Fast, scalable, flexible and really hackable. It doesn't take much time to get it up and running but selling others on it can be challenging. It works off of flat tab delimited text files making populating the node base pretty easy. There are plans for NMIS5 to use database connectivity for this which will be even more fun. There are external contributions that do everything from RANCID to Flash maps of your network. The home page is here: http://sins.com.au/nmis/ But has since moved to sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nmis/files/ With the gang being here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/nmis_users/ While not for everyone and not as popular or pretty as some of the others, it is a network monitoring system built by engineers for engineers. With a combination of SNMP data collection and ping/service tests, bandwidth utilization alerts, alert groups, thresholds etc. can be adjusted on a per-device basis and just a week of utilization can really help you identify points on the network that need to be cleaned up. I guess my favorite part is the ability to write device interface descriptions to trigger actions in the Perl script since that data is collected via SNMP. -- Will Clayton