[c-nsp] best fault management solutions?

[Daniel Hooper]

Hi,

I use Opsview (www.opsview.org) to achieve fault monitoring over a
variety of cisco devices, I find myself writing alot of plugins for it
and for ever hunting down snmp oid's to monitor conditions important to
me, but I think any fault management system requires a certain amount of
massaging to make it fit.

-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: Friday, 22 August 2008 1:29 AM
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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