[sllug-members]: Network Monitoring

[Corey Edwards]

On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 11:20 -0700, U235Sentinel wrote:
> I've been looking at various products which tie into RRDTool and I was
> wondering what other's are using to monitor their network traffic.
> I'm looking at either re-writing my perl scripts to read it's database
> (I've been using MRTG forever) or using something that's already
> popular and in use. 
> 
> monitorix looks good.  I haven't seen anything in it that presents
> daily/weekly/monthly totals of network traffic (in and out).
> 
> So, what are you using to prevent getting "The Call" :-)

We moved from MRTG to Cacti. It works fairly well, but I can't say I
recommend it for more than a few hundred nodes. We've got almost 2000
hosts and almost 6000 RRDs. It has some problems, but it is getting by.

We're investigating OpenNMS as replacement. We really like the
auto-discovery feature and they claim to have installations with 80,000
hosts. It would also be really nice to consolidate Nagios and Cacti. I
haven't fully researched it yet so I can't say whether it will meet our
needs.

Corey