Re: MRTG vs PRTG

PRTG is not that much expensive and it has cool features like threshold
notifications and pdf reports via email. It also has Netflow collectors
(although they are sold separately from the monitoring licenses). All works
fine, but you really need a good server to run it...

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Muhammad Anser Khan
<manserkhan_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> PRTG offer 10 sensors for free forever :)
>
> Regards,
> Anser
>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Thameem Maranveetil Parambath
> <security.goodie_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > CACTI is cool..., i think PRTG is licensed, but you can get free version
> > with two or three ports to get monitored.
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Federico Cossu <
> federico.cossu_at_gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> >> the real man, uses rrd via command line without any GUI!
> >>
> >> /usr/bin/rrdtool graph $BASEDIR/htrc_htrt_tot$i.png --title "ffsc $i"
> >> $DATE_STR1H DEF:myaverage0=htrc_htrt_tot$i.rrd:htrc:AVERAGE \
> >> DEF:myaverage1=htrc_htrt_tot$i.rrd:htrt:AVERAGE
> >> DEF:myaverage2=htrc_htrt_tot$i.rrd:htrcfail:AVERAGE \
> >> DEF:myaverage3=htrc_htrt_tot$i.rrd:htrtfail:AVERAGE
> >> LINE2:myaverage0#FF0000:"m-send" LINE2:myaverage1#0000FF:"m-retr" \
> >> LINE2:myaverage2#FFA000:"fail m-send" LINE2:myaverage3#A000FF:"fail
> m-retr"
> >>
> >> ;)) just kidding.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 2010/2/22 Persio Pucci <persio_at_gmail.com>
> >>
> >> > Orion is good, but too expensive. PRTG is good, but it is somewhat
> heavy
> >> > (as
> >> > most Windows apps). MRTG is excelent, but really difficult to manage
> >> > without
> >> > a GUI or another tool on top, like.... CACTI, which runs with RRDTool,
> >> the
> >> > evolution of MRTG.
> >> >
> >> > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Nauman Habib <mrnauman_at_gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > Try Solar Wind's Orion
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > Regards,
> >> > >
> >> > > Nauman
> >> > >
> >> > >
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