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Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools
From: Steve Francis <sfrancis () fastclick com>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:02:05 -0700
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. Recommendations? Thanks.
I'll add remstats (http://remstats.sourceforge.net/release/)The big strength of it I found over other systems is it integrates monitoring and alerting (a la nagios) with visual trending, which makes it much easier to see what your alerts should be set at and if you need to start worrying.
There's kind of been parallel development - the sourceforge version has some new features, another train I have has a lot of performance enhancements to allow different periods of polling; multiple snmp collectors to distribute load; parallized collections, etc.
Current thread:
- Open-Source Network Management Tools Claydon, Tom (Sep 14)
- Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools John Kinsella (Sep 14)
- 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)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- 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 John Kinsella (Sep 14)
- 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 Alexei Roudnev (Sep 17)