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 > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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