[nsp] Low Priced SNMP Manager?

[Oliver Rebollido]

Someone offlist I spoke to just recommended Big Brother Professional
Edition from Quest Software.  Anyone have feedback on Big Brother?

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Markstaller [mailto:mm at elabnet.de]
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 9:21 AM
To: Oliver Rebollido; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: RE: [nsp] Low Priced SNMP Manager?

try http://www.nagios.org/ if Linux is an option.
it's free but you need to have some deeper knowledge about snmp etc.
(which IMHO is true for any solution)
I searched for some years a *reliable* solution with enough flexibility
to monitor all things, do alerting to different users/group with
email/sms/pager etc. and came to Nagios running very happy with it
(about 100 routers, 50 other devices) using it in conjuction with mrtg
to do all graphing stuff it's really fine..

Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Oliver
> Rebollido
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 5:57 PM
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [nsp] Low Priced SNMP Manager?
>
>
>
> Can anyone recommend a low priced SNMP manager?  Our budget does not
> allow us to purchase CiscoWorks or HP OpenView so we're looking for
> something that will do the basics like email alerts if a router or
> switch goes down.  We're a midsize company and our main goal is to be
> alerted when a Cisco device goes down and to look at the status of
> each device periodically during the day.  Our budget is around $1000
> US.  We would prefer something on the Windows OS, but we're open to
> something that is Linux based.
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Oliver

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