[AusNOG] Network monitoring software

Mark Anthony Delfin mark at delfin.me
Tue Apr 15 17:06:04 EST 2014


some comparisons of network monitoring software

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_network_monitoring_systems


On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Ross [Eve IT] <ross at eve-it.net> wrote:

> I've never used NMIS.
> Can it be configured to be customer facing ?  eg, login user/pass, here's
> your devices (edge routers, stats, etc..) ?
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Rob Byrnes <rbyrnes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We have used NMIS at my current place of employ for many years. About to
>> build a new monitoring server so I've been following this thread with
>> interest. For the record, we are again leaning towards NMIS (currently
>> stuck on NMIS4)
>>
>> cheers,
>> Rob
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Keith Sinclair <keith at sinclair.org.au>wrote:
>>
>>> Radek,
>>>
>>> I am a big fan of the OSS NMS solutions in general and many of the
>>> commercial products.
>>>
>>> I am however biased towards NMIS, an OSS project I started in 1999, the
>>> community version is feature rich, highly scalable and free, and Opmantek
>>> provide commercial support and add ons.  (disclaimer: I currently work for
>>> Opmantek.com)
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>>
>>> Keith
>>>
>>>  Keith Sinclair
>>> keith at sinclair.org.au
>>>
>>> On 12 Apr 2014, at 11:03 am, 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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