[AusNOG] Network monitoring software

[Shane Short]

At a $previous_employer we found that the observium SNMP poller had some 
substantial performance issues when scaling above a few hundred 
endpoints-- especially if you're dealing with xDSL or inter-capital latency.
The "set and forget" and the automatic discovery is pretty shiny, though.

-Shane

Brad Peczka wrote:
> Why would you use Observium, when you can use LibreNMS instead? :-)
>
> Regards,
> -Brad.
>
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> From: AusNOG [ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Peter Childs [pchilds at staff.iinet.net.au]
> Sent: Saturday, 12 April 2014 12:28 PM
> To: Radek Tkaczyk; ausnog at ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Network monitoring software
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> Observium paid edition.
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> From: AusNOG [ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] on behalf of Radek Tkaczyk [radek at tkaczyk.id.au]
> Sent: Saturday, 12 April 2014 10:33 AM
> To: ausnog at ausnog.net
> Subject: [AusNOG] Network monitoring software
>
> 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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