Open-Source Network Management Tools

Fri Sep 17 13:25:00 UTC 2004

Just curious, what kind of commercial/opensource software do you use for
syslog analysis and alerting?

I also run syslog-ng and have some filters written to ignore some of the
more mundane syslog messages.  Also have swatch half implemented and
semi working, but I'm looking for a cleaner, and more manageable tool
for syslog based alerting.

On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 03:53, Alexei Roudnev wrote:
> I always tried to avoid any deal with SNMP TRAPS as most unreliable and
> unconvenient way of alerting (unfortunately, it can not be avoided totally).
> We use 'syslog' (syslog-ng + home written syslog analyzers + copmmercial
> soft, sometimes) when possible.
> 
> 
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> From: "Michael Smith" <mksmith at noanet.net>
> To: <nanog at merit.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 9:10 AM
> Subject: RE: Open-Source Network Management Tools
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> > 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.
> > >
> > Recommendations?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> 
> I'd like to expand the question by asking, what Open-Source
> applications do people use for SNMP Trap collecting and alarming?
> We're very happy with Nagios for polling, but we have a lot of
> optical components that send information via Traps that then needs to
> be culled, trimmed and analyzed.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike
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