I'm looking for open-source alternatives for network management, such as
Nagios or Big Brother. We are currently using WhatsUp Gold, and would
like to move to something more flexible (and not running on a Windows
platform). Something that has email/paging capabilities, and can process
SNMP traps would be a plus for us as well.
Recommendations?
Thanks.
Christ, WhatsUp Gold...that's giving me flashbacks!
Have you checked out...
http://www.nagios.org
http://www.bb4.org ?
I suspect what you might be looking for is something like OpenNMS,
http://www.opennms.org
There's a few other packages out there, but IMHO they all suck in one
way or another.
John
There's a few other packages out there, but IMHO they all suck in one
way or another.
Well I hope that we will be coming with (nexb) will not be sucking, but
it is not production grade yet.
Will have to wait a few more months.
I'm looking for open-source alternatives for network
management, such as Nagios or Big Brother.
I would add to the list the excellent zabbix, just ass popular as jjfnms
Well I hope that we will be coming with (nexb) will not be sucking, but
it is not production grade yet.
Will have to wait a few more months.
Ah yes, I'm looking forward to seeing that. 
Need beta testers?
> I'm looking for open-source alternatives for network
> management, such as Nagios or Big Brother.
I would add to the list the excellent zabbix, just ass popular as jjfnms
Zabbix features overview
Ah my bad, I did forget about Zabbix - one of my guys was just showing
it off to me a few weeks ago, too. Does look good, I just don't see
justification for replacing our nagios setups with it.
John
Ah yes, I'm looking forward to seeing that.
I will definitely need some when we make a release worthy of nanogers!
I will make a post at that time.
Ah my bad, I did forget about Zabbix - one of my guys was just showing
it off to me a few weeks ago, too. Does look good, I just don't see
justification for replacing our nagios setups with it.
My take would be that once configured both are similar.
Nagios has a bit tougher configuration, and Zabbix is better looking.
They are pretty much head to head in terms of features, and Nagios is a
tad more popular.
Nagios is primarily coded in C, when zabbix has some C but primarily
PHP.
But to your point they are both excellent, and there is no big reason to
switch once you have one up, except for the sake of diversity....
I use this (designed in Relcom 5 years ago, and re-newed hhere this year):
(SNMP network monitoring, + Cisco configuration repository with automated
change control, + ProBIND2, + many things which was not included, such as
mhonacr archiving for all alerts / warnings / audits / reports, mnogosearch
for document seaerch etc).
In addition, we use 'cricket' for tiny router monitoring.
Claydon, Tom wrote:
I'm looking for open-source alternatives for network management, such as
Nagios or Big Brother. We are currently using WhatsUp Gold, and would
like to move to something more flexible (and not running on a Windows
platform). Something that has email/paging capabilities, and can process
SNMP traps would be a plus for us as well.Recommendations?
Thanks.
I'll add remstats (remstats - About Remstats)
The big strength of it I found over other systems is it integrates monitoring and alerting (a la nagios) with visual trending, which makes it much easier to see what your alerts should be set at and if you need to start worrying.
There's kind of been parallel development - the sourceforge version has some new features, another train I have has a lot of performance enhancements to allow different periods of polling; multiple snmp collectors to distribute load; parallized collections, etc.