Librenms for the win. It simply works. The new alerting is coming along nicely too, so it is "almost" getting into the territory where you could take cacti and nagios and combine them into one product. However Librenms requires a lot of tweaking under the hood for RRD performance and depending on how many devices you have you'll need to host it on an SSD.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Jones" <[email protected]> To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 3:01:35 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Network Monitoring and Notification App I feel the same way. Librenms was easy, they offer it as an OVA, I had to convert it for ESX, but it was a cinch. I wont use applications that require me to be a webdude and database admin to operate it. believe me, if its simple enough for me to put in production, its worth it On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 11:09 AM David Coudron < [ mailto:[email protected] | [email protected] ] > wrote: We like the idea of distributed pollers and hosting through SaaS. We know we aren’t experts at building, backing up and managing servers and databases and would rather not have that responsibility. We can keep the poller appliances close to the monitored devices, but don’t need the aggregationreporting tool there. Once we own the hosting, we now own security of it, upgrades, backups, etc. Not the end of the world, but we’d rather spend our time building towers than running servers. However, given the importance of this function, this would be the one service we’d want to invest more time in rather than less if we have to. Thanks, David Coudron From: AF < [ mailto:[email protected] | [email protected] ] > On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 10:55 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group < [ mailto:[email protected] | [email protected] ] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Network Monitoring and Notification App Challenge is that you'll have to host it? Having precise monitoring of your network is only possible on your network. ----- Mike Hammett [ http://www.ics-il.com/ | Intelligent Computing Solutions ] [ https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL ] [ https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb ] [ https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions ] [ https://twitter.com/ICSIL ] [ http://www.midwest-ix.com/ | Midwest Internet Exchange ] [ https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix ] [ https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange ] [ https://twitter.com/mdwestix ] [ http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/ | The Brothers WISP ] [ https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp ] [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg | ] From: "David Coudron" < [ mailto:[email protected] | [email protected] ] > To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" < [ mailto:[email protected] | [email protected] ] > Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 10:15:43 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Network Monitoring and Notification App We are just in the process of doing the same thing. We had previously used Powercode for this, but had moved to Sonar hoping to improve some of these items. Unfortunately, we are finding a number of drawbacks with Sonar and need to augment Sonar with other items. We have stood up LibreNMS and believe this will give us the functionality we are looking for. Specifically, we think we can get the bandwidth usage numbers polled and graphed properly as well as control some of the annoying notification issues we have in Sonar. If you have some interest in talking more to see if the issues we faced are similar to what you are looking at, we can connect offlist. The challenge with LibreNMS is that you’ll have to host it. However, we are finding it to be pretty stable and customizable. That is where we are seeing challenges with Sonar. Sonar would also likely require you to move to their billing platform and so on. It does a pretty good job of that. Thanks, David Coudron From: AF < [ mailto:[email protected] | [email protected] ] > On Behalf Of Sam Lambie Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 10:05 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group < [ mailto:[email protected] | [email protected] ] > Subject: [AFMUG] Network Monitoring and Notification App Hey all, We are looking into building/installing a better network toolset at our NOC so we can get a better handle on where our bottlenecks are. Currently, we use a hodgepodge of Cacti, Ping, and Smokeping to keep an eye on our network. It's ok, but having to look at multiple places to get an idea of what is happening is cumbersome at best. What do you guys use to bring your networks health into one source/control panel/dashboard? I am looking for: bandwidth usage ping times frame utilization customer counts switch port logging basically a really nice SNMP and more package that is robust. Thanks! 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