[c-nsp] OT: SNMP Trap manager recommendation

[Piotr Nowacki]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:14:10AM -0500, Justin Shore wrote:
> I'm in need of a decent SNMP Trap manager that scales and is free (OSS) 
> or cheap.  I currently Nagios for my NMS and Cacti for data collection 
> and graphing so clearly I'm a fan of OSS solutions.  I read an article 
> several years ago in the now defunct SysAdmin magazine on tying in 
> SNMP-TT into Nagios.  Is there a better way?  I need to collect traps 
> from Hatteras equipment mainly but once I have it I'm sure I'll use it 
> for other things as well.
> 
> My searches have so far turned up JFFNMS, OpenNMS, Mila NetWhistler, 
> NetCool (expensive?) and a few others.  There's also the GroundWork fork 
> of Nagios and other OSS tools that may be useful.
> 
> Any recommendations?  Thanks
>  Justin
Hi,
take a look at Opsview (www.opsview.org)
It is basically nagios with heavily patched NDO and Java frontend.
It does support basic SNMP Traps processing.

Peter