Hi, I'm looking for a monitoring system that support snmp v3. I want to monitorize linux servers and network switches. Currently, I am trying to use zabbix, but sadly, it lack at present features that I need. For example, I want to get reporting screens with data and graphs from network switches, I'd like to configure one only port of a given switch and that is used as templates for the rest of switch ports and the rest of the switches. I'd like to use some open source software that meet that features, and I want to avoid Nagios :) Could you recommend me someone? Thanks in advance -- -- Open Kairos http://www.openkairos.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com Sergio Belkin -
Sergio Belkin wrote:> Hi, > I'm looking for a monitoring system that support snmp v3. I want to > monitorize linux servers and network switches. Currently, I am trying > to use zabbix, but sadly, it lack at present features that I need. For > example, I want to get reporting screens with data and graphs from > network switches, I'd like to configure one only port of a given > switch and that is used as templates for the rest of switch ports and > the rest of the switches. > > > I'd like to use some open source software that meet that features, and > I want to avoid Nagios :) > > Could you recommend me someone? > > Thanks in advance >Have you looked at zenoss? www.zenoss.com
Sergio Belkin wrote:> Hi, > I'm looking for a monitoring system that support snmp v3. I want to > monitorize linux servers and network switches. Currently, I am trying > to use zabbix, but sadly, it lack at present features that I need. For > example, I want to get reporting screens with data and graphs from > network switches, I'd like to configure one only port of a given > switch and that is used as templates for the rest of switch ports and > the rest of the switches. > > > I'd like to use some open source software that meet that features, and > I want to avoid Nagios :) > > Could you recommend me someone?OpenNMS will do most of this automatically if the snmp setup is the same on all the devices. Http://www.opennms.org. Installing from the yum repo that includes Sun java is the easiest approach. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sergio Belkin wrote on Mon, 12 May 2008 23:07:20 -0300:> [CentOS] Somewhat OT:even then please write a senseful subject next time! Kai -- Kai Sch?tzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com
On Monday 12 May 2008 10:07:20 Sergio Belkin wrote:> Hi, > I'm looking for a monitoring system that support snmp v3. I want to > monitorize linux servers and network switches. Currently, I am trying > to use zabbix, but sadly, it lack at present features that I need. For > example, I want to get reporting screens with data and graphs from > network switches, I'd like to configure one only port of a given > switch and that is used as templates for the rest of switch ports and > the rest of the switches. > > > I'd like to use some open source software that meet that features, and > I want to avoid Nagios :) > > Could you recommend me someone? > > Thanks in advanceI'm in the process of evaluating open source monitoring tools as well. I've found Cacti to be the easiest to configure, especially with SNMP, but lacks alerting and only covers to performance. Zenoss looks really really good, but I seem to get hung up on getting it configured to actually do anything. I'm in the process of looking at Groundworks, but it is based on Nagios, which you'd like to avoid. HypericHQ is another promising one -- haven't tried it yet. Zabbix and OpenNMS are on the list as well. I feel like there are a few more, but I can't recall at the moment. So far, Zenoss shows the most promise. I don't know what it is, but I have the hardest time wrapping my brain around its configuration. Maybe it is because it has a unique modeling approach. Hope these help. -Chris
Sorry for the top post. Nagios can start very simple, but has the ability to end up very complex. It's configs take a modular approach, you have monitors, monitors belong in groups, groups have operators/administrators, etc. My big problem with nagios is when I used it last it didn't keep monitor history which makes trending impossible. I eventually went with ipmonitor from solarwinds which has a nice web interface, all the reporting you may want and works pretty much like nagios does, but through a web interface. Very reasonable pricing too. Of course I believe it only runs on windows, but it runs very nicely as a VM guest. -Ross ----- Original Message ----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org <centos-bounces at centos.org> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> Sent: Tue May 13 07:34:50 2008 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Somewhat OT: 2008/5/13 Kai Schaetzl <maillists at conactive.com>:> Sergio Belkin wrote on Mon, 12 May 2008 23:07:20 -0300: > > > [CentOS] Somewhat OT: > > even then please write a senseful subject next time! > > Kai > > -- > Kai Sch?tzl, Berlin, Germany > Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com >Yes, you're roght Kai, I don't know how I could write such a stupid subject, but it was too late yersterday, and I was writing with a little part of my brain working :) Even so, thanks for your comments, I'd like more experiences about monitoring systems. Again of topic, I want to avoid Nagios because it looks like over complex but if someone has an actual experience demostrating the opposite, I'd be glad to hear. Thanks in advance -- -- Open Kairos http://www.openkairos.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com Sergio Belkin - _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080513/bb54477a/attachment.html>
Ross S. W. Walker wrote:> Sorry for the top post. > > Nagios can start very simple, but has the ability to end up very complex.Network management is never simple. I'd say OpenNMS is somewhat the opposite in that the initial install can be somewhat complicated (although much less so now that they include the Sun jvm in their packaging), but it is designed to scale to large networks without a lot of additional work. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
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Really? I thought Outlook does a pretty good job on references. Maybe it's the BB :-( <rant> I really need RIM to update their mailer app on the BB to allow threading and preserve references... Is that so hard RIM?! Is it? </rant> -Ross ----- Original Message ----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org <centos-bounces at centos.org> To: centos at centos.org <centos at centos.org> Sent: Wed May 14 06:48:50 2008 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Somewhat OT: Ross S. W. Walker wrote:> > Sorry for the top post.Your mailer breaking references and thus destroying threading for others is worse than top posting >:) Cheers, Ralph ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080514/26927bb8/attachment-0005.html>
Ross S. W. Walker wrote on Wed, 14 May 2008 08:53:05 -0400:> I thought Outlook does a pretty good job on references.It's okay if used standalone. You may have lost references because of the way you are connected to Exchange. Kai -- Kai Sch?tzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com
Ross S. W. Walker wrote:> > Nagios can start very simple, but has the ability to end up very complex. > > It's configs take a modular approach, you have monitors, monitors belong > in groups, groups have operators/administrators, etc.We just finished setting up Nagios at our office. It's not that bad once you break things out to sensible filenames instead of using one big config file. We stripped it down to just the essentials and are slowly building out our configuration to monitor additional services and hosts. The other trick that we use is FSVS, which means that we have very good records as to what configuration file changes we made on the server. (FSVS is a front-end for storing stuff like /etc in a SVN repository.) It's extremely useful to be able to log configuration changes, browse past changes, do diffs on the files, etc.