Ah, ok. Well, you can easily receive traps (and transform/alert/blah/do
whatever you want) with Zen.
It might be overkill if that is all you need it for, though.
Josh
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote:
> The mapping should be handled by Mapcom. Not really sure all the
> benefits that come by integrating it but it is something we own and I
> figured I may as well see what it can do.
>
> At the moment I am probably just going to write a trap receiver in C++ or
> C# and an alarm client so everyone can have real time trap monitoring.
>
> *From:* Josh Baird <joshba...@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 06, 2015 10:47 AM
> *To:* af@afmug.com
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] NMS anyone?
>
> We use Zenoss and Observium.
>
> Zenoss for more "powerful" things like custom datasources, alerting, etc.
>
> Observium for a simple look into the environment.
>
> Neither offer very advanced mapping platforms, though. You can feed
> Zenoss GPS coordinates to plot things on a map.
>
> Josh
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What does your mapping department need from the NMS? Seems like you at
>> least need a way to attach GPS coordinates to a node, or to retrieve said
>> coordinates from the node. In fact, I'm pretty sure that MRTG, being very
>> basic does not even have a database.
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote:
>>
>>> OK, so the query was buried in another email. So, to make it a bit
>>> more explicit, here is the question:
>>> What do you like for NMS?
>>>
>>> I need something that will integrate with software used by my mapping
>>> department. The software they use will work with a whole bunch of
>>> different NMS packages (it claims). I have only worked with PRTG and MRTG
>>> in the past. Seems that Solarwinds seems popular with the mapping software
>>> people but there are many more.
>>>
>>> If I do this right, we will have a real time system map showing all our
>>> fiber and all our active electronics with current alarms and status. I
>>> think...
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> --
>> bp
>> part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com
>>
>
>
