I wouldn't say that. Zenoss/Zabbix aren't exactly old school. On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 9:06 AM, Mike Hammett <[email protected]> wrote:
> Observium\LibreNMS and NetXMS are the three platforms I'd consider worth > using. Most anything else is old school. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > > > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Josh Reynolds" <[email protected]> > *To: *[email protected] > *Sent: *Friday, March 18, 2016 5:57:16 PM > *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Cacti Users poll > > Observium you can also script, also direct rancid / smokeping / collectd / > nfsen integration, alerting via email / SMS / slack / email / custom, can > do billing based on data totals or 95%, easily separate your links by > core/transit/peering/customer based on standards ifdesc, etc. > > For our fiber network, it does everything we'd want it to do including > monitoring all our ups, environmental monitoring (it watchdogs), maps the > network, grabs bgp and ospf tables, etc. > > I just point it to a DNS entry of a management interface or let it learn > hosts via CDP/lldp/EDP/etc and away it goes... No fucking around like with > mrtg/cacti/nagios. > On Mar 18, 2016 4:15 PM, "Eric Kuhnke" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I just don't see the point of Observium (paid) when you can run totally >> free software that is more full featured and actively developed by large >> ISPs: >> >> >> OpenNMS - is used as the primary alerting/NMS system for some very large >> tier 1 and 2 ISPs >> >> Cacti - get it set up right with 60 second polling and properly >> sized/stepped RRDs, and you can use it to chart things with any arbitrary >> non-NMS datasource via shell scripts. >> >> Grafana - pull data from a time series database like OpenTSDB and graph >> it. >> >> >> I don't rely on one but rather run cacti and opennms for everything. >> OpenNMS handles the alerts and availability monitoring, cacti graphs layer >> 1 and 2 parameters (optical DOM and RF variables) and layer 3 IP traffic >> interfaces. >> >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Josh Reynolds <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Adam from Observium? He since has "recanted his views" after being >>> banned from a forum or two and reddit and then started bleeding >>> customers. >>> >>> Their supported devices page are now full of stuff most WISPs and MSPs >>> use. >>> >>> BTW, observium is awesome and the paid version (like $225 a year) now >>> supports custom devices/OS's/OIDs. >>> >>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 1:29 PM, That One Guy /sarcasm >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > bad fire >>> > >>> > would the guy from that nms who hated the customers be in charge >>> > >>> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 1:10 PM, SmarterBroadband >>> > <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> A number of us are cacti users. >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> Who would be interested in forming a group, where we all pay a small >>> >> monthly fee to have a “company” build and manage a cacti template >>> library >>> >> for us? We would specify our template requirements. >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> They would be expected to; >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> Create templates as requested. >>> >> >>> >> Update templates for new firmware. >>> >> >>> >> Keep a library of all templates. >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> I don’t know what company yet. >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> What do you think? >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> Adam >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your >>> team as >>> > part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. >>> >> >> >
