On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 08:49:12AM -0500, Colton Conor wrote:
We are looking for a new network monitoring system. Since there are so many operators on this list, I would like to know which NMS do you use and why? Is there one that you really like, and others that you hate?
For free options (opensouce), LibreNMS and NetXMS come highly recommended by many wireless ISPs on low budgets. However, I am not sure the commercial options available nor their price points.
Part 2 (see Part 1 for my epistles on Autostatus & Nagios). To complement Autostatus and Nagios and to replace our ancient Cricket SNMP graphing/trending solution, several years ago we had adopted Statseeker. We've now replaced that with AKiPS, which I highly recommend. It does your basic 1 minute SNMP graphing, but it also collects SNMP Traps & Syslog feeds and can alert on custom matches & events as well as host down via ping. Its main feature is its comprehensive vendor MIB support--it supports almost every vendor's device we use out of the box with no special configuration. They are constantly adding support for new vendors/devices and they are pretty responsive to adding new ones. AKiPS' weakness is in alerting--it makes no attempt at depenencies or event correlation, so you can get flooded with events.