Open-Source Network Management Tools

Fri Sep 17 13:32:15 UTC 2004

What makes syslog so much more reliable in your opinion?  There's no ability
to find lost messages or have guaranteed delivery.  At least not on 514/udp.
If you can toss a trap, you can toss a syslog message.

That is, unless I've lost my mind this morning and need to go get more
coffee.

On 9/17/04 3:53 AM, "Alexei Roudnev" <alex at relcom.net> 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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