OT: Nagios/ OpenNMS

Nagios has many add ons that can enhance feature set. I used MRTG
for bandwidth statistics and threshold alerting. Nagios is very flexible
for alerting via email, SMS, and IM. Virtually any MIB that can be walked
can be trapped and alerts sent. It takes intermediate knowledge of Linux...
Including every disto can be a little different. But I would argue that
Nagios can do virtually anything a paid NMS can do minus IP SLA
recording/reporting.. That may have changed as well.

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Joseph L. Brunner
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> Exactly good points Marc - we use logicmonitor.com, opmanager &
> smokeping. The only open source one we invest lots of time in is smokeping
> for real-time alerts and some very custom high frequency bash scripts that
> track and alert ntp and ptp clock and timing issues.
>
> thanks
>
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> We use both to some extent. I find nagios great for setting alerts but not
> really a full NMS. OpenNMS is ok. It can monitor and provide graphs but
> unless you spend a long time building custom views it is hard to use it
> from a network perspective. Our systems guys like it because they can
> easily drill down on one host. From a network perspective though I couldn't
> find any good views to give me stats on the various uplinks etc. Basically
> if I was hunting an issue I would have to go look link by link.
>
> I have purchased Solar Winds and it is much more useful from a network
> perspective.
>
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Vibeesh S <vibselva_at_gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'vibselva_at_gmail.com');>>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Anyone with any experience with Nagios/ OpenNMS, please share the
> > highs & lows of having it in a medium to large scale network
> infrastructure.
> > Appreciate your response.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Vibs
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