[c-nsp] best fault management solutions?

[Jason LeBlanc]

You could do something as simple as mrtg templates and a few simple
scripts to auto-gen the mrtg configs with thresholds that email you.
You also get graphs of the trends to boot.  We have several tools
running but I tend to use mrtg more than the others.  I have some code
if you're interested, php with a mysql backend, its hacked together but
it works.

Gregori Parker wrote:
> To clarify, I'm not looking for an all-in-one ciscoworks-class solution
> that rivals the cost of my car, I'm just curious how everyone here
> handles device fault management.
> 
> The DFM module in Ciscoworks does a good job of alerting me about things
> like broadcast rate, queue thresholds and BGP events, but I'm not
> finding it to be reliable or worth the cost.  So, before I spend the
> next month leveraging perl and net-snmp to get the information I want, I
> thought I'd ask to see what people are using.  I have absolutely no need
> for server/application monitoring - just something that actively polls
> devices and handles snmp traps, knows the difference between a switch
> and a firewall, and lets me know when there's cause for concern.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Gaurav Sabharwal
> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 12:59 AM
> To: Rubens Kuhl Jr.
> Cc: Cisco-nsp
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] best fault management solutions?
> 
> Cisco Works will definitely be cheaper than SMARTS solution.
> 
> Another option to look at is EM7 from ScienceLogic 
> http://www.sciencelogic.com/ There appliances have a start price of $
> 25K.
> 
> - Gaurav
> on 08/22/2008 05:08 AM Rubens Kuhl Jr. said the following:
>> Smarts is what used to be BMC Patrol or something else ?
>>
>> How it compares price-wise to Cisco Works ?
>>
>>
>> Rubens
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 2:39 PM,  <daniel.voyer at bell.ca> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Then you want a see this:
>>> http://www.emc.com/products/family/smarts-family.htm
>>>
>>> Smart is a monitoring tools with corolation engine. If you router
> crashes, you will know about, and you will also know what's behind that
> router that you just lost and then gives you the impact. It can go up to
> servers.
>>> - dan
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Gregori Parker
>>> Sent: August 21, 2008 1:29 PM
>>> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
>>> Subject: [c-nsp] best fault management solutions?
>>>
>>> I've had it with Ciscoworks.
>>>
>>> I'm not new to getting LMS working properly, I'm just tired of
> lowering my expectations.  Device discovery is hit and miss, new
> versions seem progressively worse, and the whole product is about as
> ergonomic as a pile of broken glass.  I've stripped it down to just
> common services and DFM, but there just isn't enough value there
> relative to resources.
>>> So, I'm looking for DFM-like replacement recommendations - I
> currently have configuration and performance management covered by
> rancid, cacti, syslog-ng and a few other open source tools; and I have
> netflow taken care of - I'm just having trouble finding a good solution
> for device fault management (i.e. temp, fan, interface errors, queues,
> broadcast rate, bgp neighbor state changes, etc) for a mostly-Cisco
> environment.
>>> I need something with a little bit of intelligence, not just a simple
> trap forwarder.  Have already evaluated Orion, but it has too many
> extras that I don't need (i.e. netflow, traffic graphs, configs, et al
> are already handled) and not enough of what I do need (device awareness,
> alerting).  Not concerned with cost and platform, thanks in advance.
>>> - Gregori
> 
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