Re: [NOOP] 24x7 NOC..

["J.D. Falk" <jdfalk () priori net>]

On Oct 2, "Kent W. England" <kwe () geo net> wrote: 

> You might as well do the whole nine yards. Is there a decent ISP network
> management system or is it still OpenView and a lot of utilities?

        I've been playing with lots of 'em recently.  Of the free
        ones, only MRTG and Tkined are worth a damn -- even though
        lots of people swear by NOCOL, I've been swearing at it
        'cause the configuration is hard to visually parse and not
        consistent across the various monitoring programs.

        I'd have to say that I prefer HP Openview to Tkined, but for
        what I'm doing the difference is not so great that Openview
        would be worth the money.

        Also, Tnm (the Tcl add-on that is used by Tkined) has lots
        of useful hooks for SNMP, ping, etcetera, and can be used to
        write custom stuff pretty easily.  I'll be distributing some
        of what I write here once I'm happy with how it functions.

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