[c-nsp] Monitoring GUI for Cisco network

[Dave Temkin]

>From looking at this it looks like it would take some serious
customization to get it to do anything other than 5 minutes, or am I
missing something?

-Dave

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Chris Hale wrote:

> OpenNMS can do this at whatever intervals you want.  It becomes a matter of
> disk i/o and CPU if you want to poll a large network in a very short amount
> of time.
>
> We use it to poll our core devices every minute, graph every 5, and
> poll/graph standard nodes every 5 minutes.
>
> It also is our Syslog/trap server, notification/paging system, etc.
>
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Temkin [mailto:dave at ordinaryworld.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 9:47 PM
> To: Preston.Newton at consolidated.com
> Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: RE: [c-nsp] Monitoring GUI for Cisco network
>
> Anyone have any leads on graphing software that can poll and graph at
> sub-5 minute intervals (preferrably sub-minute intervals...)
>
>
> -Dave
>
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 Preston.Newton at consolidated.com wrote:
>
> > Summary of some apps in the open-source arena
> >
> > Graphing:
> > MRTG (oldie but works) - http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/
> > NetMRG (I use this and works well) - http://www.netmrg.net/
> > Cacti (looks good and know others that do) - http://www.cacti.net/
> > Smokeping (Latency Grapher.  very useful) -
> > http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/smokeping/
> >
> >
> > NMS Services:
> > NMIS (seen it, looks interesting.  maybe should be in graphing though) -
> > http://www.sins.com.au/nmis/
> > OpenNMS (never used it) - http://www.opennms.org/index.php/Main_Page
> > Nagios (Use it, it can do SNMP Trapping) - http://www.nagios.org/
> > JFFNMS (yet another one) - http://www.jffnms.org/index.php
> > Zabbix (FOSS/Commercial) - http://www.zabbix.com/
> > Big Brother (not really network, but systems) - http://bb4.com/
> >
> > Hope it helps.  there is a lack of HPOV equiv apps in the open-source
> > area.
> >
> > Preston
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Joseph Jackson" <JJackson at aninetworks.com>
> > Sent by: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> > 02/22/2006 06:12 PM
> >
> > To
> > "Charles Tompkins" <crt at thig.com>, "Vincent De Keyzer"
> > <vincent at dekeyzer.net>, <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
> > cc
> >
> > Subject
> > RE: [c-nsp] Monitoring GUI for Cisco network
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I use cacti too. But only for usage graphing as its not a NMS in any
> > sense of the word... Er.. Phrase.  www.opennms.org is a good NMS for
> > alerting and monitoring of services.  Cacti is great for usage
> > 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
> > they go
> > > down
> > > *              shows links between NEs (that turn red when down)
> > > *              allows to group NEs within a sub-view (e.g. for each
> > 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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