[nsp] Query on MRTG

Rubens Kuhl Jr. rubens at email.com
Sun Jan 11 16:20:15 EST 2004


Big Brother licen$e is not as great as NAGIOS.
Any field experience (good or bad) with OpenNMS (http://www.opennms.org) ?
If any, please state version number (1.0 stable, 1.1 development).


Rubens


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "hakan lindholm" <hakan at staff.spray.se>
To: "Goldberg Alain (IT)" <alain at towersemi.com>
Cc: <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 5:49 PM
Subject: RE: [nsp] Query on MRTG


> On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Goldberg Alain (IT) wrote:
>
> > NAGIOS @ http://www.nagios.org/
> > Is great for what you want.
>
> Nagios is great, Big Brother is great.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tarko Tikan [mailto:tarko at lanparty.ee]
> > Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 4:18 PM
> > To: Kshitiz Singhal
> > Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> > Subject: Re: [nsp] Query on MRTG
> >
> > hello!
> >
> > > I have a query on MRTG, can we use MRTG to send mail alert whenever
> > > threshold exceed.
> > >
> > > For example: if i am using mrtg to monitor cpu utilization of cisco
> > > router, can we set so it can send mail alert whenever cpu utilization
> > > crosses 50%
>
> No problem. Use the Threshold config directives.
>
>
> > you can move to cricket. first, it's better then mrtg (bad side is that
> > it's more complicated) and second, it has feature to create hooks that
> > react to tresholds. I'm using it to detect pps going up fast on
> > interfaces and it works well.
>
> Just as Threshold in MRTG?  Why learn a new beast when yo already know one
> that can help you?
>
>
> I use MRTG Threshold feature to submit status to Big Brother. Should
> work just as good for passive monitor in Nagios (or whatever they call
> it.)
>
>
> Best regards,
>  Hakan Lindholm
>  Lycos Europe
>
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