[c-nsp] OT Solarwinds Alternatives

Fri Jul 28 05:43:05 EDT 2017

netbox from digital ocean https://github.com/digitalocean/netbox as a 
source of truth

rancid for backup

and then NAV (Network Administration Visualized)  https://nav.uninett.no/

NAV is is a very old project from 1999. It is in its 4. generation, so it 
is mature and stable. It has the backing of Norwegian universities, so 
there is sponsorship. It is postcardware. Check it out!

--
Rikard

On Thu, 27 Jul 2017, Catalin Dominte wrote:

> 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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