[c-nsp] OT: Open Source Network Monitor

[Max Reid]

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

Exactly!

Common setup is:

Nagios for Alarms

Cacti for Trending


Regards,
Max






>
> 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-----
>> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
>> [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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