<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>We have used a whole range of products (Nagios, OpenNMS, Cacti, Dude, NetXMS, Zabbix)</div><div><br></div><div>However at the end of the day nothing really suited what we were after, so we decided to write our own based off Cacti and Nagios.</div><div><br></div><div>What we came up with was a NMS system built into our global control panel "Karltec-Kontrol" which allows our admins to monitor our whole network and users to monitor just their devices and ports based on what we set in our billing system.</div><div><br></div><div>But for the most part its now a hybrid of Karltec-Kontrol and Cacti, which we are planning to move entirely to Karltec-Kontrol shortly thus scrapping cacti/Nagios from our large pile of software we never use ;)</div><div><br></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1521F6">P</font> 02 8014 4253<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal; "> EXT:104</span></b></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: bold; "> | <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1521F6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">M </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(21, 33, 246); font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">0438475892 <b>|</b> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1521F6">www</font>.karltec.net</span></b></span></span></b></span></span></span></b></div></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></i></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(5, 97, 0); font-size: 9px; font-style: italic; ">Please consider the environment before printing this email. Think before you print. </span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#056100" size="1"><i><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></i></font></div></span></i></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#056100" size="1"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#056100" size="1"></font></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span> </font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1521F6"></font></span></i></font></div></span></i></font></div></span></span></i></font></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><br><div><div>On 09/02/2010, at 15:41, Christopher Balmain wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>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.<br><br>Chris<br><br>---<br>Christopher Balmain<br><a href="mailto:chris@team.dcsi.net.au">chris@team.dcsi.net.au</a><br>d: +61 (0)3 5624 1134<br><br>DCSI - We do Internet.<br>http://www.dcsi.net.au/<br>p: 1300 66 55 75<br>f: 1300 55 65 95<br><br><br>PRK wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">G'day guys,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I'm curious what people use for network monitoring, performance monitoring &<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">graphing of large scale networks & systems.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Open source / commercial / homegrown / hybrids thereof?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Any experiences (for or against) different solutions that people are willing<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to share?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Cheers,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">prk<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">AusNOG mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog<br></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br>AusNOG mailing list<br>AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net<br>http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>