From: Tony Varriale (tvarriale@flamboyaninc.com)
Date: Tue Apr 22 2008 - 16:15:58 ART
If Cacti was only going to 100 data sources, your consultants did not know
wtf they were doing.
How big is your system? If it's not huge, there really isn't a reason to
build something from scratch. You could easily get away with modifying
existing open source systems out there and meeting almost all your
requirements.
Tony Varriale
Flamboyan, Inc.
630-546-7610
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From: keith tokash [mailto:ktokash@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 2:01 PM
To: Tony Varriale; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: OT - RE: SNMP Freeware server
We're currently dealing with this problem as well. In fact during a recent
meeting with our Cisco peeps I asked an old-school ISP guy what other large
enterprises and ISPs are using (we're actually content + some ISP for other
business units) and he said everyone pretty much rolls their own solution.
We used to use a consulting company that had some home-grown, Cacti-based
bandwidth graphs. They were snakes so we dumped them, but that still left
us needing a BW graph solution. Cacti didn't scale enough, something about
not being able to handle >100 data sources. To fix that and the other crap
our developer thought needed fixing would have taken so much effort that he
just started making something home-grown. While he bangs away on that we
set up MRTG, which is quick and works, but sucks in its own way (like having
a 23,000 line config file ... no, I'm not exaggerating).
Hopefully our dev gets re-railed from the stuff he got de-railed to work on
and finishes our long-term solution soon, because he was planning on open
sourcing it, and we would be putting some really groovy features in there,
like dynamic graph generation based on if.Alias tags - prepend "[ LAX1 TR L3
]" to your normal interface description and it would include that particular
interface in any graph you defined that used those tags (LAX1=data center
name, TR=transit, L3=Level3, arbitrary number of tags, configurable values).
After that's working the sky's the limit really. Scan if.Alias nightly to
pull interfaces out after a neteng whacks the port description, add new
ones, move them around, all automagically. Build new graphs with a iTunes
"smart playlist" style interface - "All interfaces with TR and LAX1, but not
with L3". Really the only way I could think of moving forward with a
graphing system without guaranteeing the need for a full-time geek sitting
there fiddling with graph interface config files ... and still making
mistakes.
I'll cop to being proud of the idea. :) And this email constitutes prior
art from what I understand, so anyone can run with this, and not do the
patent troll crap where they jack everyone else trying to use it.
As for traps, we have Cisco LMS, but we're not 100% Cisco (and LMS could be
the single most retarded software suite I've used in years) so we're
probably going to throw a FBSD box up with OpenLMS to catch traps.
With a few exceptions, secrecy is deeply incompatible with democracy and
with science.
--Carl Sagan
> From: tvarriale@flamboyaninc.com
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: RE: SNMP Freeware server
> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:04:07 -0500
>
> I would recommend Cacti or Zenoss.
>
> Tony
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
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> > > To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> > > Subject: SNMP Freeware server
> > >
> > > anyone can recommend a freeware SNMP server for recieving traps and
> > > polling?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
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