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

[Blake Dunlap]

Observium is great if it does everything you want, but be warned it is
quite painful to extend, speaking as someone who has set up
distributed nagios set ups. Nagios may be cumbersome and a bit
verbose, but at least it's very intuitive to extend when you want to
do complicated things, or just anything that didn't come with it.

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Mihai Tanasescu <mihai at duras.ro> wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cisco-nsp [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of
>> Gustav UHLANDER
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>> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Slightly off-topic - Network Monitoring software
>>
>> 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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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cisco-nsp [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of
>> Scott Granados
>> Sent: den 24 april 2015 12:53
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>> Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
>> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Slightly off-topic - Network Monitoring software
>>
>> 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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