[nzlug] Nagios vs. OpenNMS

[Mark Foster]

On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, Cliff Pratt wrote:

> Mark Foster wrote:
>> 
>> My interest is mainly in network devices, so I'd even consider simple 'up 
>> or down' monitoring with a halfway decent gui.
>> 
> Network devices? Smells like SNMP?

Nice, but starts heading down the 'complicated' route.

SNMP Trap Management requires you having the right mibs for every device 
on your network, and getting the monitoring thresholds right.
I mean, you can trap each time someone switches off their workstation for 
the night, or more often, if you're not careful.

To start with a simple little gui where network assets can be arrayed into 
a logical order, with up/down/slow (maybe slow?), would be a start.
A columnised version of same would also be considered.

I've seen commercial software that does this, but am yet to fully 
investigate the OSS alternatives. Will be doing a lil digging based on 
info seen to date, though...

Mark.