I'm not sure if this is the correct mailing list for this question, but if it is acceptable then my response is below.
Observium is definitely worth it in terms of "just works". I like to have the paid-for version of Observium running which you can point at an IP/Hostname and it will automatically graph everything it supports for that device. In addition to this I like to have Cacti also running as Cacti will graph "anything" so we can use it to make bespoke graphs for anything no in a MIB, and also stuff like stacked and aggregate graphs. Having two NMS’s also provides backup if you bill from them for example. They both support the free weather map plugin. Also a new major version of Cacti just came out to help with scaling issues so I'm very happy with that: https://github.com/Cacti/cacti We’ve had loads of problems with some paid for systems which I don’t think I can name on-list. Both of these open source projects are scaling better than our paid for system and both support a wider ranges of devices that our paid for system. Considering these two are both free (except for the very minimal cost of Observium support which is optional) for people with an NMS budget, I highly recommend either one of them and spend that budget on man hours customising your deployment and writing and bespoke plugins you need, drop RANCID or https://github.com/ytti/oxidized on the box and you’ll be laughing. Cheers, James. _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
