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Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools
From: "Alexei Roudnev" <alex () relcom net>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 00:53:05 -0700
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. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Smith" <mksmith () noanet net> To: <nanog () merit edu> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 9:10 AM Subject: RE: Open-Source Network Management Tools -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.3 iQA/AwUBQUhq+Zzgx7Y34AxGEQJP6gCgh1KW5vvq2fRh4WBSik1Q7Ay31okAoIAh ZKUgPFi9PZhDpOGIAXXOIY9W =oD9A -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Current thread:
- Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools, (continued)
- Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools Alexei Roudnev (Sep 15)
- RE: Open-Source Network Management Tools Philippe Ombredanne (Sep 14)
- Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools John Kinsella (Sep 14)
- RE: Open-Source Network Management Tools Philippe Ombredanne (Sep 14)
- Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools John Kinsella (Sep 14)
- Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools Steve Francis (Sep 15)
- RE: Open-Source Network Management Tools Lucas Iglesias (Sep 14)
- Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools Alexei Roudnev (Sep 15)
- Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools Mark Newton (Sep 15)
- Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools Wes Hardaker (Sep 15)
- Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools Alexei Roudnev (Sep 15)
- RE: Open-Source Network Management Tools Michael Smith (Sep 15)
- Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools Alexei Roudnev (Sep 17)
- Building a network and system management open source tool Philippe Ombredanne (Sep 17)
- Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools Chris Allermann (Sep 17)
- Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools Suresh Ramasubramanian (Sep 17)
- Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools Alexei Roudnev (Sep 17)
- Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools Christian Kuhtz (Sep 17)
- Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools Alexei Roudnev (Sep 17)
- Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools Alexei Roudnev (Sep 17)
- Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools Irwin Lazar (Sep 17)
- Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools Alexei Roudnev (Sep 17)