I'm looking at depolying an open source-based NMS solution, and I'm
looking at a couple products, mostly OpenNMS (http://www.opennms.org)
and Zenoss (http://www.zenoss.org). I like the looks of Zenoss, but
I've never really heard of it and I'm wondering if anyone has any
experiences with it that they can share before I go and spend hours on
an install/configuration. Is there something wrong with it, and that's
why I've never heard of anyone using it? Am I just out of the loop?
Even better would be someone who's used both products and could give
me a quick comparison. I'd also welcome suggestions of another product
(as long as it's not bb, nagios, or hobbit) that I should be looking
at.
Thanks,
Gary Giesen
I'm looking at depolying an open source-based NMS solution, and I'm
Define what you want in your "NMS" -- not even the vendors can manage to
agree on a meaning.
looking at a couple products, mostly OpenNMS (http://www.opennms.org)
"What is OpenNMS" makes it sound like Nagios and nothing more. They also
insist on mentioning "enterprise-grade" and "open source" before listing
features, which suggests their priorities might be a bit bass-ackwards.
and Zenoss (http://www.zenoss.org). I like the looks of Zenoss, but
It's written in Zope, and depends on half the Python world besides. I have
a severe allergic reaction to anything involving Zope, since it's a mammoth
pile of incomprehensible Python that only seems to produce shite that nobody
wants to maintain (cf. Plone -- offlist if you want the full story on that).
Even better would be someone who's used both products and could give
me a quick comparison. I'd also welcome suggestions of another product
(as long as it's not bb, nagios, or hobbit) that I should be looking
at.
Honestly, I find it hard to go past the combination of Nagios and Cacti.
Perhaps that's just familiarity blinding me to the worst excesses of Nagios,
(although I can give you the hit list of what's horribly wrong with it)
normally by the time I've worked around the warts of whatever's being pushed
as an alternative, it would have been less effort just to stick with what I
know and tolerate.
If you can identify what it is you can't stand about Nagios, and what
features, exactly, you're looking for in your "NMS", somebody can no doubt
point you in the direction of your perfect dream-tool.
- Matt
OpenNMS is rock solid. It's definitely not as easy to configure as some of
the others (especially as far as graphing is concerned), but it's getting
better. Incredibly reliable however, and scales extremely well.
Very helpful mailing list also.
I'd definitely recommend giving it a test run.
Ray
OpenNMS is ok, depending on your needs. At the level we've needed it to scale, it's failed miserably. We've also had reliability issues with it, but some are associated with it's scaling issues.
Tom
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