[Cialug] Opensource Network Monitors

[John Lengeling]

I have been running Nagios for 5+ years and BigBrother many years before
that.   Nagios is pretty good, but not easy to use.  On the other hand
most Network monitors are not easy to use or configure.

Wish it had an integrated GUI config tool for everything.  On the plus
side, it can monitor just about anything via SNMP, NRPE, or NSCA.  As
with all network monitoring, you need to be able to write scripts
(Perl/SH/etc) and know how SNMP works in order to create/modify the
plugins to monitor your devices.

I am monitoring 72 hosts and 137 services.  Monitoring hosts in Des
Moines/China/India/Florida/Oregon, disk space, temperature, NetApps,
Windows, Linux, Solaris, RAID arrays, UPS, 48V power supplies, WAN
connections, routers.

johnl

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
Behalf Of lister at kulish.com
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 1:54 PM
To: cialug at cialug.org
Subject: [Cialug] Opensource Network Monitors


Looking for some input on network monitors.  So far I think Ive narrowed
it down to 3.  We're looking to monitor mainly service availability but
performance monitoring is a bonus.

Nagios
Zabbix
Zenoss

First, anyone actively using any of these?  pros and cons?
Second, is there one I missed?  I am open to suggestions.

Thanks.
CK
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