[c-nsp] OT: Open Source Network Monitor

[Jason Lixfeld]

Nagios doesn't do traffic graphing via SNMP, for example.

On 30-Aug-06, at 6:46 PM, Paul Stewart wrote:

> 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/
>
> -----Original Message-----
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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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