[c-nsp] Network Management System

[Peter Hicks]

Mario Spinthiras wrote:
> I find it hard to believe that people still use nagios or cacti. I
> can't even begin to tell you how superior Zenoss is compared to what
> is out there today.
>   
I've used Nagios and Cacti to good effect, although I will freely admit 
the biggest problem (and that of many NMSes) is the lack of a single, 
central, extensible CMDB (or inventory database, or simply a list of 
'stuff you have').

At $JOB-1, I wrote my own CMDB which I believe is still in use.  Sure, 
you can use Rancid to back up your configs - I wrote my own tool - but 
it all comes back to a central database of 'stuff you have'.

I've yet to see a really, really good off-the-shelf CMDB.


Peter

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