[AusNOG] Network monitoring software

[Alex Samad - Yieldbroker]

Zabbix  + nfsens + plus an inhouse built application :) right tool for the job.

From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Mark Anthony Delfin
Sent: Saturday, 12 April 2014 11:43 AM
To: Lindsay Hill
Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Network monitoring software

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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto:radek at tkaczyk.id.au>


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