[sllug-members]: Network Monitoring

[adam fisher]

----- Stuart Jansen <sjansen at buscaluz.org> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Have you looked at Zenoss?
> 
> -- 
>   Stuart Jansen              e-mail/jabber: sjansen at buscaluz.org
>                            google talk:   stuart.jansen at gmail.com
> 
> "However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at 
> the results." -- Winston Churchill   

I will through my hat out there for Munin.  I like how easy it is to get it up and running and configurable it is with its plugins.  It is just as easy to setup alerts as well.

Adam