We also moved from Powercode to Sonar. I wasn't happy with the direction the company was going and I feel a lot more comfortable back in Simon's hands.
On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 2:14 PM David Coudron <[email protected]> wrote: > We made the switch from Powercode to Sonar a little over a year ago. All > in all I think we are happy we made the switch, but polling is a challenge > in Sonar as well. Before making that switch, I’d love to talk to folks > about some unexpected issues they are likely to encounter. We also spun > up LibreNMS to resolve many monitoring issues. It really stinks to have > to manage another system to do basic monitoring, but that is what we have > to do. > > > > I would love to see a hosted version of LibreNMS with an agent/appliance > that could be deployed inside your network. We don’t want to be in the > server build/backup/management business, we’d rather be putting up > towers. Not sure if anything like that exists out there. > > > > Regards, > > > > David Coudron > > *From:* AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of * [email protected] > *Sent:* Thursday, December 12, 2019 3:42 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] powercode and mikrotik BMUs > > > > There is always sonar... > > > > *From:* Steve Jones > > *Sent:* Thursday, December 12, 2019 2:34 PM > > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > > *Subject:* [AFMUG] powercode and mikrotik BMUs > > > > Powercode has become quite a joke. Half our probes havent worked for > months and they dont even respond to the ticket. We had to spin up Librenms > just to get monitoring data > > > > Trying to integrate mikrotik BMUs and having issues, they have zero > legitimate documentation and when you ask whats supposed to be happening > they tell you to seek out a consultant and that the info may be proprietary. > > > > Thats all bad enough, but i figure ill do some packet sniffing to find out > what the communication is between the billing server and the mikrotik, > maybe find out I misconfigured something, come to find out the nitwits are > sending out the authentication in PLAIN TEXT. They dont even have a > disclaimer when you add one of these. but christ, if youre operating an off > network BMU, your infrastructure credentials are getting tossed into the > ether like its nothing. > > > > I wish simon hadnt left > ------------------------------ > > -- > 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 >
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