[c-nsp] OT: Open Source Network Monitor

[Paul Stewart]

Just curious..:)  Why would you need Cacti if you already are running
Nagios?  Doesn't Nagios graph everything you could need?

Take care,

Paul Stewart
Network Administrator
Nexicom Inc.
http://www.nexicom.net/  

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[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Jason Lixfeld
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 5:04 PM
To: Joseph Jackson
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] OT: Open Source Network Monitor

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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