If you are interested in getting to know more about the monitoring space and
the various options out there, I recommend listening to the IT Management
podcast.  I'm about 25 episodes in and it has been very enlightening.
http://www.redmonk.com/cote/it-management-podcast/
Brandon

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Craig Cook <[email protected]> wrote:

> >Now, I think we could handle 5K hosts and 10K network ports with
> >Nagios+Cacti, maybe?
>
> Nagios and Xymon can both handle that number of hosts.  I don't know about
> Cacti though.  Not sure about 10k network ports either.  They usually
> require SNMP polling which in my experience is not necessarily lightweight.
>  I have used Perl with Big Brother to monitor 600+ cisco devices, can't
> remember how many ports though.  Think I was mainly doing environmental
> monitoring (cpu/mem/proc/hardware/etc) on them.
>
> When you get into that type of scale a really nice to have feature is
> network discovery and mapping.  I don't think either Nagios or
> Xymon can do that though.
>
> Craig
>
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