[c-nsp] OT: Open Source Network Monitor

[Jason Lixfeld]

I would suggest Nagios + Cacti (running that combination currently).   
Followed closely by JFFNMS.  Nagios is a very mature product with a  
large user/support base and is very flexible with regards to custom  
plugins for things like SNMP polling (which is doesn't do natively  
(yet??)).  Cacti has matured greatly in the last couple of years and  
the configuration complexities have been greatly reduced from where  
they were when the project was in it's infancy.  The two aren't  
integrated, but there are some third party plugins and patches for  
both to try to integrate the two (needed because Nagios doesn't have  
graphing functions for things like bandwidth monitoring/errors/pps/ 
etc and likewise, cacti doesn't have any sort of robust device  
monitoring/alerting capabilities).

JFFNMS has come along way.  It provides functionality similar to a  
hybrid of Nagios and Cacti as it performs both host monitoring/ 
alerting and graphing.  The monitoring/alerting functionality isn't  
as robust as Nagios, but the graphing side of it is quite good.  I  
don't particularly care for the UI, but it too has matured over the  
last couple of years.

HTH...

On 30-Aug-06, at 4:05 PM, Joseph Jackson wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> 	I know this is way off topic but I would like to know any
> software products you guys can recommend.  We are looking for an open
> source network monitor.  I have tried OpenNMS but didn't like certain
> parts of it so I'd like to hear what you all gotta say.
>
>
> Joseph
>
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