I took a look at NOCOL, it looks like it's commercial and now called NetVigil. It actually looks quite impressive. Is anyone using it? I only need it for network devices, not servers. So I'm not really concerned too much about server monitoring functionality. Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: Adam Maloney [mailto:adamm at sihope.com] > Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 1:48 PM > To: 'tclug-list at mn-linux.org' > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] monitoring software > > > We are using NOCOL/snips and have been pretty happy with it. It does > everything we need, and is pretty easy for us to add to it > when we need > to. I'm not sure of all of your requirements, but it works > well in our > situation. > > > On Fri, 2 May 2003, Austad, Jay wrote: > > > I have a demo version of InterMapper for linux > (http://www.dartware.com). > > It's probably the best monitoring tool I've ever used, but > historically, > > it's only been available on Mac, until now. It's very very > fast, and takes > > very little resources. Has auto-discovery, and it just > plain works great. > > Oh, and it's very cheap compared to most other commercial > products. > > > > I'm currently evaluating some monitoring products which > need to keep track > > of a few hundred network devices, and several hundred network links > > (traffic, interface down, etc..). > > > > Right now, I'm using Nagios (http://www.nagios.org) and Cacti > > (http://www.raxnet.net), however, Nagios is a nightmare to > administer with > > this many devices (edit 3 config files to add or remove a > single device), > > and Cacti is not really really scalable enough at this > point to handle this > > many links. There's a threaded daemon available for Cacti, > but it's not > > fully mature yet, and the release version of it is very > tedious to set up > > with this many devices. > > > > Besides device monitoring, I need 2 more things. I need to > be able to keep > > historical traffic data for all of our links, and I also > need something that > > will generate an "executive report" every week which lists > the percentage of > > network uptime, a listing of outages, and also a list of > the links which > > exceed an average of 60% utilization any day of the week. > > > > Unfortunately, Intermapper only provides the monitoring > portion of this. It > > has some graphing capabilities, but not really a full > fledged database of > > past data that I can go back and look at like with Cacti or > Cricket. Also, > > it doesn't seem to offer any sort of executive reporting > option. I could > > write something if I could figure out how to pull info from > it, and ideally, > > I would like it if I could make intermapper's traffic > polling save the data > > to an RRD database. Has anyone tried this? > > > > I'm looking at some other products also, however, they are much more > > expensive, and unfortunately, many of them are like 4 > different products > > hacked together into one web interface, which is fine and dandy, but > > typically, at least one of the products hacked in is > something that sucks. > > > > Otherwise, does anyone have any recommendations for a decent > > monitoring/reporting package? Free is good, but not a > requirement. Ease of > > administration is a must though because there are just too > many devices and > > links to have to add them using a tedious process. Also, > the monitoring > > program must not only check for down devices, but also > alert when a device > > has a down interface (like a frame link or something). > Both Nagios and > > Intermapper do this. > > > > Big Brother is not what I'm looking for. Nagios is close, > except for the > > administration part of it. Cacti comes close for traffic > management, and > > will probably fit the bill when the new version comes out, > but it's not > > ready yet. Using Nagios and Cacti, I could very easily > write something in > > Perl that would generate a weekly report. Still kind of a > hack, but at > > least I would have control over what it does. But I'm > still willing to pay > > money if I can find something that does it all well, and is > not going to > > take up obscene amounts of my time for day to day administration. > > > > Jay > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list