Yep, LibreNMS makes me look smart. Thanks for the suggestions folks. On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 7:14 AM Steve <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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! > > > Sam > > > > > > -- > > > -- > Sam Lambie > Taosnet Wireless Tech. > 575-758-7598 Office > [ http://www.newmex.com/ | www.Taosnet.com ] > > > > -- > AF mailing list > [ mailto:[email protected] | [email protected] ] > [ http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com | > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com ] > > > > -- > AF mailing list > [ mailto:[email protected] | [email protected] ] > [ http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com | > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com ] > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- -- *Sam Lambie* Taosnet Wireless Tech. 575-758-7598 Office www.Taosnet.com <http://www.newmex.com>
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