Kentik
Has anyone used this? From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 6:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Cacti Users poll I'm very progressive when it comes to tech. Just because something does and has worked doesn't mean it's the tool you should be using. Many of the tools people are using have limited abilities to effectively manage syslog, configurations, custom actions, etc. Many tools lack the customizable precision one should want. Screw 5 minute averages. You want 5 second averages (or maybe less) on critical infrastructure and priority clients. Five minutes may be appropriate for residential customers. Maybe less for vacation homes. Then you've got things like Kentik that really bring about a new way to present the information, allowing you to make better decisions because you can actually see what the data is telling you. ----- 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: "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 8:15:11 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Cacti Users poll I thought you were a conservative, you are sounding like a progressive. Nothing wrong with old school. Get off my yard. From: Mike Hammett <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 8:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Cacti Users poll Observium\LibreNMS and NetXMS are the three platforms I'd consider worth using. Most anything else is old school. ----- 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: "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.
