[AusNOG] Network Monitoring Systems

[Christopher Balmain]

After looking around for an out-of-the-box solution that would do everything we needed, and trying a number of different products (Zenoss, IPSentry, Nagios, and OpenNMS to name a few), we eventually decided on Cacti. We did have to modify it quite a bit in-house to support a few extra features like SMS alerting and the ability to monitor services (e.g. is port X open on host Y?), but overall it's an excellent system IMO.

Chris

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PRK wrote:
> G'day guys,
> 
> I'm curious what people use for network monitoring, performance monitoring &
> graphing of large scale networks & systems.
> 
> Open source / commercial / homegrown / hybrids thereof?
> 
> Any experiences (for or against) different solutions that people are willing
> to share?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> prk
> 
> 
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