[AusNOG] Network monitoring software

[Mark Anthony Delfin]

I have been using OMD(http://omdistro.org/) built on Nagios and check_mk


On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Lindsay Hill <lindsay.k.hill at gmail.com>wrote:

> Solarwinds is ~$25K for an unlimited NPM license. Much less if you have a
> smaller network. If you think that is very expensive, you've never seen the
> pricing for some of the "Big 4" vendors. Gets very scary, very quickly if
> you've got a big network.
>
> If you're set on a commercial product, there's not a huge number of good
> options that are going to come in at a significantly lower cost. Don't
> forget to allow for implementation effort. No matter what any vendor says,
> nothing is just 'install it & you're done.' Depending on your scale, the
> license cost may only be a small part of the overall cost.
>
> Figure out what features you really need/want. Figure out what scale you
> need. Big distributed monitoring setup? Or just one server polling 50
> devices? Add-ons that can bump up costs are NetFlow, Config Mgmt, IP SLA
> monitoring, etc. Figure out what other integrations you might need - is
> this just network monitoring, or do you want to add in server monitoring?
> Or integrate with another server monitoring system? Trouble-ticketing?
> Handle it in this tool, or create tickets in another system?
>
> You might end up going with an Open Source core product, with add-on
> support. As already mentioned, Zenoss is pretty good. NMIS from Opmantek is
> pretty good too.
>
>  - Lindsay
>
> Disclaimer: I don't work for or with any of the vendors mentioned. NMS
> consulting is part of what I do, but it's usually with other products.
> Deliberately haven't mentioned them here, but happy to talk off-list.
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Radek Tkaczyk <radek at tkaczyk.id.au>wrote:
>
>>  Hi Guys,
>>
>>
>>
>> I have been asked to review our network monitoring software that we use
>> internally to monitor our own infrastructure, but also to monitor the
>> various layer 2 and layer 3 customer tails we have around the country.
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm looking for any recommendations from people who are happy with the
>> products that they have inhouse. Looking for a commercial product really
>> (as long as it's not ridiculously expensive).
>>
>>
>>
>> At my previous employers we have used PRTG and Solarwinds, which were OK,
>> but I know Solarwinds was very expensive. One important feature that we
>> need is a device dashboard that will show us the status and details of a
>> device like IP addresses, IOS and firmware versions, error stats, etc.
>>
>>
>>
>> Any suggestions from fellow ausnoggers here?
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Radek
>>
>> Ph: 0413 383 231
>>
>> radek at tkaczyk.id.au
>>
>>
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