[AusNOG] Network Management and Tools

[Andrew Cox]

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
>
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> *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.
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>> -Dan
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