Open-Source Network Management Tools

Wed Sep 15 07:10:31 UTC 2004

I use this (designed in Relcom 5 years ago, and re-newed hhere this year):

  http://snmpstat.sf.net

(SNMP network monitoring, + Cisco configuration repository with automated
change control, + ProBIND2, + many things which was not included, such as
mhonacr archiving for all alerts / warnings / audits / reports, mnogosearch
for document seaerch etc).

In addition, we use 'cricket' for tiny router monitoring.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Kinsella" <jlk at thrashyour.com>
To: "Claydon, Tom" <Tom.Claydon at DobsonTelco.net>
Cc: <nanog at merit.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools

>
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 02:47:45PM -0500, Claydon, Tom wrote:
> > I'm looking for open-source alternatives for network management, such as
> > Nagios or Big Brother. We are currently using WhatsUp Gold, and would
> > like to move to something more flexible (and not running on a Windows
> > platform). Something that has email/paging capabilities, and can process
> > SNMP traps would be a plus for us as well.
>
> Christ, WhatsUp Gold...that's giving me flashbacks!
> Have you checked out...
> http://www.nagios.org
> http://www.bb4.org ?
> :)
>
> I suspect what you might be looking for is something like OpenNMS,
> http://www.opennms.org
>
> There's a few other packages out there, but IMHO they all suck in one
> way or another.
>
> John