[AusNOG] Network Management and Tools

[Andrew Oskam]

The other thing I noticed is that alot of the features require  
RouterOS which I believe is a microtik OS that you referred me to some  
time ago when I was doing up a project.

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Andrew Oskam

On 05/07/2010, at 8:21 PM, Andrew Cox <andrew at accessplus.com.au> wrote:

> For a simple "setup, ping a host and get an email or sms when it's  
> offline" I can't recommend The Dude highly enough.
> Free system, allows custom tools and SNMP monitoring / reporting (it  
> has a number of predefined values to poll however setting up your  
> own is relatively simple)
>
> Allows setup of remote agents to do the monitoring too.
>
> The biggest/only major flaw is that it doesn't have a linux version  
> just yet.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/thedude0000
>
> - Andrew
>
> On 5/07/2010 7:15 PM, Oliver Eyre wrote:
>>
>> In a word, horrible.
>>
>> In 2008 we wasted several months and ultimately our ~$12,000  
>> license fee trying unsuccessfully to wrestle OpManager MSP into  
>> some kind of useful tool.
>>
>> Several drawcard features outright didn't work and were always  
>> "coming in the next version". The Indian call centre that  
>> ManageEngine contracted to support the product didn't know anything  
>> about it, almost any issue would have to be escalated to engineers  
>> (ignored). Several days worth of time were also wasted in webex  
>> sessions with previously mentioned call centre to verify that we  
>> weren't lying about broken features being broken. Then we were told  
>> that the Linux version of the product was being discontinued and if  
>> we wanted further support and those still broken features we'd have  
>> to move to Windows. I can't remember exactly but its also quite  
>> possible that we had to re-enter our network from scratch since  
>> there was no way to migrate the data. Lots of other little things  
>> that caused us grief along the way but those were the main ones  
>> that I remember.
>>
>> After our license expired we ended up going back to SNMPc.
>>
>> Needless to say it left an extremely bitter taste, I would most  
>> definitely not touch the product with a 50m cattle prod ever again.
>>
>> Hope this helps, Oliver
>>
>> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog- 
>> bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Andrew Oskam
>> Sent: Monday, 5 July 2010 10:16 AM
>> To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
>> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Network Management and Tools
>>
>> Is anyone actively deploying OpManager? If so, What are your  
>> opinions on it?
>>
>>
>> Andrew Oskam
>> E  percy at th3interw3bs.net
>>
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>> On 5/07/10 10:13 AM, Daniel Hooper wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Surely it would make total sense to extend nagios so it actually
>>>>> remembered the data it collected rather than just doing a real- 
>>>>> time
>>>>> evaluation and then throwing the data away.  There are some  
>>>>> nagios rrd
>>>>> type hacks but, really, how hard could this really be.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> David
>>>>>
>>>> Both OpenNMS and Zabbix can do both reporting and graphing in one.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> So can opsview .. I migrated all my nagios & cacti stuff to  
>>> opsview, works a treat.
>>>
>>> -Dan
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