[c-nsp] Re: c-nsp Monitoring GUI for Cisco network

jamie baddeley jamie.baddeley at fx.net.nz
Thu Feb 23 05:43:55 EST 2006 

My vote goes for Nagios and Cricket.

Hunt down a patch that gives cricket ACL's.

Get hold of a nagios check that reads RRD's and you've got threshold
notification.

Push the notifies out to smstools and you're away.


cheers

jamie

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 09:52 +0300, Raymond Macharia wrote:
> Hi,
> related to this does anyone know of ay tool that can measure jitter, or a
> tool that can interpret the values that Cisco routers generate when you have
> the rtr command configured with type jitter.
> 
> thanks
> 
> Raymond
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 2/23/06, Aivars <aivars at ml.lv> wrote:
> >
> > Zabbix is not commercial. You can buy support for it from developers.
> > That costs.
> >
> > Aivars
> >
> > Thursday, February 23, 2006, 3:35:26 AM, you wrote:
> >
> > PNcc> Summary of some apps in the open-source arena
> >
> > PNcc> Graphing:
> > PNcc> MRTG (oldie but works) -
> > PNcc> http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/
> > PNcc> NetMRG (I use this and works well) - http://www.netmrg.net/
> > PNcc> Cacti (looks good and know others that do) - http://www.cacti.net/
> > PNcc> Smokeping (Latency Grapher.  very useful) -
> > PNcc> http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/smokeping/
> >
> >
> > PNcc> NMS Services:
> > PNcc> NMIS (seen it, looks interesting.  maybe should be in graphing
> > though) -
> > PNcc> http://www.sins.com.au/nmis/
> > PNcc> OpenNMS (never used it) - http://www.opennms.org/index.php/Main_Page
> > PNcc> Nagios (Use it, it can do SNMP Trapping) - http://www.nagios.org/
> > PNcc> JFFNMS (yet another one) - http://www.jffnms.org/index.php
> > PNcc> Zabbix (FOSS/Commercial) - http://www.zabbix.com/
> > PNcc> Big Brother (not really network, but systems) - http://bb4.com/
> >
> > PNcc> Hope it helps.  there is a lack of HPOV equiv apps in the
> > open-source
> > PNcc> area.
> >
> > PNcc> Preston
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > PNcc> "Joseph Jackson" <JJackson at aninetworks.com>
> > PNcc> Sent by: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> > PNcc> 02/22/2006 06:12 PM
> >
> > PNcc> To
> > PNcc> "Charles Tompkins" <crt at thig.com>, "Vincent De Keyzer"
> > PNcc> <vincent at dekeyzer.net>, <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
> > PNcc> cc
> >
> > PNcc> Subject
> > PNcc> RE: [c-nsp] Monitoring GUI for Cisco network
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > PNcc> I use cacti too. But only for usage graphing as its not a NMS in any
> > PNcc> sense of the word... Er.. Phrase.  www.opennms.org is a good NMS for
> > PNcc> alerting and monitoring of services.  Cacti is great for usage
> > PNcc> reporting.
> >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> > >> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of
> > >> Charles Tompkins
> > >> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 7:26 AM
> > >> To: 'Vincent De Keyzer'; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> > >> Subject: RE: [c-nsp] Monitoring GUI for Cisco network
> > >>
> > >> I use a free program called cacti (www.cacti.net).  Runs on a
> > >> typical LAMP platform.  My OS of choice is Centos 4.2 for
> > >> this solution.  Setup documentation is available at the
> > >> website and there is a large forum.  My cacti implementation
> > >> is monitoring our firewalls, switches, routers, and even some
> > >> Windows and Linux production servers.
> > >> Regards,
> > >> -Charles
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> > >> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of
> > >> Vincent De Keyzer
> > >> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 3:20 AM
> > >> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> > >> Subject: [c-nsp] Monitoring GUI for Cisco network
> > >>
> > >> Hello,
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> I am looking for the following NMS for a mostly Cisco (+ other vendor
> > >> equipment) network:
> > >>
> > >> *              linux-based
> > >> *              free/open-source
> > >> *              graphical display of network elements that turn red when
> > PNcc> they go
> > >> down
> > >> *              shows links between NEs (that turn red when down)
> > >> *              allows to group NEs within a sub-view (e.g. for each
> > PNcc> site)
> > >> *              shows NE alarms when you double-click on it
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> . so something like (apart for the first two requirements) HP-OV NM.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Anyone knows something nice?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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