[c-nsp] Slightly off-topic - Network Monitoring software

[Mihai Tanasescu]

Hi,

PRTG ?
Nagios / Icinga / Opsview / other clones / forks - allow the most 
customization but maintenance and changing eats quite a bit of one's 
time (at least until the setup is in place)
Observium - nice, user friendly, when you want to have custom checks or 
develop more than what the package already provides, then you need to 
think a bit if it's really worth it
Cacti - not really monitoring, albeit you can install a Threshold and 
Alerting plugin, plus you do have a nice weathermap

Cheers,
Mihai

On 4/24/15 6:04 PM, Paul Stewart wrote:
> It also really depends on what you want out of the monitoring system and on
> what scale.
>
> I came from a Solarwinds shop - we really liked it overall but it had a few
> annoying glitches and some of the interface wasn't intuitive (like alerts).
> Changed companies a few months back and Observium, Nagios, Cacti, and
> Solarwinds :)
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
>
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> Hello
> We are using Observium for this at present.
> It works well for us and is available both in a commercial and free license.
>
> Commercial license is also rather cheap.
> It works pretty good with nice graphs and customizable alert levels.
> Also it understands Pseudowires ok from most plattforms and has support for
> the most popular manufacturers.
>
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> Scott Granados
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> I would also add Nagios to the list.  Open NMS has also been useful in the
> past and groundwork was interesting all be it expensive for the fully baked
> commercial version.
>
> On Apr 24, 2015, at 12:00 AM, CiscoNSP List <cisconsp_list at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> Slightly off-topic, but we currently use Solarwinds - It works, is
> functional, but some parts of it (Alerting for example), I find a bit
> cumbersome.
>> Ive had a look at some alternatives, and came across Opmantek....had a
> look at a demo, and first impressions were positive...looks good, Interface
> appears intuitive+fairly easy to modify....just wondering if anyone is using
> it in production, and how they find it?
>> Cheers.
>> 		 	   		
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