[AusNOG] Network Monitoring Systems

[Daniel Hooper]

Just thought I'd mention OpsView (opsview.org) which seems to do the trick for us. Opsview is built on nagios with a few fruity bits thrown in to make it easier. We monitor and report on a couple of hundred devices like blade centres, linux machines, windows machines, routers, switches, mux's, radio's & other paraphernalia all being monitored from a single processor P4 doing something like 700 checks a minute.

I use to run nagios + cacti, but opsview eliminated the need for cacti as it started doing its own graphing for pretty much any metric you configure it to graph.

It doesn't have any type of netflow support that I've seen yet, I haven't really looked either. SNMP trap support is rather flaky as well.

Cheerio

-Dan



From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of PRK
Sent: Tuesday, 9 February 2010 12:10 PM
To: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: [AusNOG] Network Monitoring Systems

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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