[Cialug] Opensource Network Monitors

[Chris K.]

Zabbix is the one I am leaning heavily towards right now.  It has all 
the "pretty pictures" that I will need to get management buy in.
I think our implementation would be mostly for internal dev servers and 
the like, but it's a start.

Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 21:27 +0000, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
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>> 	I've been looking at Zabbix.  The others just seem too limiting to
>> smaller environments (being SNMP/Polling based).  Zabbix appears to be
>> almost to the level of competeing with the likes of OpenView and Tivoli, but
>> still maintaining the ease of use if all you want is SNMP polling.
>> Hopefully, I'll get the chance to review it in more detail in the coming
>> months. 
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> I like Zabbix - I've been using it for some time now.  One issue with
> Zabbix is that it can be time consuming to set it up initially.  The new
> version (1.4) is much better in that regard but it can still take a
> while to set up all your templates.  There's some auto-discovery stuff
> in the new version but I haven't played with it yet.
>
> Jeff
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