[AusNOG] LibreNMS vs Observium

[Colin Stubbs]

2.5 cents,

Both work and do good jobs of what they do. Feature sets have diverged a
little since the split; understandably. Make sure you're familiar with the
current differences.

Observium has better overall hardware support and feature set still; in my
opinion. And it still appears to have a larger user base/community and more
active development (I believe).

That's balanced against Adam's general attitude, which is and should be
concerning for continuity reasons if nothing else, and more specifically
his approach to development/feature requests/patch acceptance.

But it works well and we're continuing to pay for the professional
subscription.

It was comforting to see the copyright transferred to Observium Ltd; giving
the project a chance that it may yet grow into a decent commercial offering.

But it's nice knowing LibreNMS is a good alternative if it all ends badly.

-Colin


On 29 August 2016 at 12:10, Mike Taylor <mtaylor at totalteam.co.nz> wrote:

> I should clarify, there's nothing wrong with either product
>
> Mike Taylor
> The Total Team
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> On 29/08/16 14:08, Mike Taylor wrote:
>
> We switched to LibreNMS from Observium, and Libre runs just fine.
>
> We wanted to give back to the project, but chose to go with a product
> whose license was more open than the Observium product.
>
> That, and it looked like the Observium owner was having a permanent
> meltdown and being unpleasant in IRC and email.
>
> 5cents worth :-)
>
>
> Mike
>
> Mike Taylor
> The Total Team
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> On 29/08/16 14:01, Samual Jackson wrote:
>
> I've been using Observium at home for quite a while, I tried LibreNMS but
> found it wasn't as easy to use and often stopped polling devices. Observium
> has been reliable for me working from the start, plus alerting recently
> came to the free Observium edition.
>
> It would be worth setting them both up and comparing directly, LibreNMS
> does seem to be updated a lot more often so they may have fixed a lot of my
> issues.
>
> Cheers,
> Sam
>
> On 29 Aug 2016 11:04 AM, "Dino Sosic" <Dino.Sosic at datacom.com.au> wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>>
>>
>> Has anyone used both of these? Can you tell me why you would prefer one
>> over the other? Please don’t go into the whole discussion about the owner
>> of Observium. I just want to know which one would you say is better, and
>> why?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Dino
>>
>>
>>
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