[c-nsp] OT Solarwinds Alternatives

[Catalin Dominte]

Been looking into that for quite a while now.

You don't have a lot of options:

- Observium - Fires a lot of SNMP stuff to the devices, but looks pretty,
not distributed.
- Icinga - Hard to get up and running and needs lots of work to operate. (I
found that). Hard to find clear docs on multi tenancy. Liked it though.
- LibreNMS - Fork of Observium
- PRTG - Commercial. Easy to use. Runs on Windows. Multitenant, Netflow,
etc. No Config manager or IPAM though.
- OpenNMS - I looked at it as well, but I need multi tenancy and it does
not have that.
- Nagios - Can go for the paid version of it, and get some pretty-ish
interfaces, netflow and multi tenancy.
- OP5, OPS View, Zabbix, etc. Might as well go Nagios.
- Amon. New one out here. Looks quite good and since it was open sourced
could be useful. No network monitoring capabilities though.
- Ninja - too commercial for my liking
- Netcrunch - Looks like windows, but it does not do multi tenant and no
distributed monitoring either.
- Manage engine - Too clunky and too many things on the same page, very
crowded
- Auvik, Datadog and the likes... erm pass. Tooo pricy
- Iris Networks (South African company) - looks rather nice. Testing it at
the moment. Runs on FreeBSD, so that sounds even better.
- Mindarray - Not there yet. Nice interface (bootstrap) but not very
intuitive at all. Lots of buttons to click and lots of stuff to look at.
Sort of like manage engine.
- AKIPS - Sooo expensive
- Thousand Eyes - Good marketing. I give them that. If you run a business
though price will kill you quite fast.

I am actually using this now - Stablenet from Infosim. Very complex, but
easy to use as well. Lot of scripting, automation, config management, asset
management, asset management, EoL, SNMP, alerting, distributed agents, runs
on linux.

I am tempted to get something together in the form of:

NMS (Open source) + ELK + Netbox in an appliance to get everything sorted
for what I need.

Have I missed anything?

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On 27 July 2017 at 20:08:58, Scott Granados (scott at granados-llc.net) wrote:

Hi Nick,

In my opinion anything is better than Solar Winds but that’s me. I don’t
understand how any serious network monitoring company only offers their
products for the windows environment and has no Unix variants. That’s just
goofy to me but that aside here are some alternatives I have had good
success with.

Open NMs http://www.opennms.org is a comprehensive open source network
management toolkit.
Open groundwork http://www.opengroundwork.com Can be pricing depending on
licensing but easy to set up and pretty feature packed, based on NAGIOS if
memory serves.
NagIOS, the gold standard, Nagios is a good framework with lots of plug in
functionality and ability to customize / expand. It’s a very complex but
powerful tool. In many environment it requires a full-time admin but it
doesn’t have to.
If you’re looking for netflow capture and analysis I’m a pretty big fan of
nfdump and nfcapd. Easy to get up and running and can generate powerful
reports, also includes plugin add ons like mapping functions and anomaly
detection.
Cacti, good prober for port stats and has the ability to take rapid probes
in for looking at bursty traffic.
RANCID, great network archiving tool for version control and archival of
network device configs. Written in expect / TCL so can be modified to suit
your needs.

THere’s a few for starters.

Thanks


On Jul 27, 2017, at 2:56 PM, Nick Griffin <nick.jon.griffin at gmail.com
<mailto:nick.jon.griffin at gmail.com>> wrote:

Sorry for the off-topic post. I'm looking for input on network management
solutions other than solarwinds, unbiased opinions. We will need all things
network related, monitoring, alerts, reporting, configuration management,
and other tools that might be handy for a NOC. If this takes multiple tools
then that is fine. Just looking for some ideas from the guys in the
trenches. Thanks!
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