Shalom, Sorry for the late response, just got to it,
Ganglia monitors Unix/Linux machines and OpenNMS monitors anything with an SNMP agent, can be router, cable modems etc. Linux/Windows machines, Applications like Oracle or WebLogic and so on. With OpenNMS the way to monitor what ganglia does is to configure and run the NET-SNMP Agent that ships with most Linux distributions. OpenNMS architecture is one-centralized-server-that-manages-all so you don't have to install an agent on each monitored machine - unlike ganglia's distributed approach. OpenNMS is targeted to have an open source alternative to HP-OpenView, the MS-Windows on Network management, so besides SNMP it does service-monitoring, i.e. check if the mail/ftp/database/samba/http/dhcp/dns.. is up? I was curious, so I looked at the project statistics, apparently it's a little more popular than ganglia, see: http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/index.php?report=last_30&group_id=4141 vs: http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/index.php?report=last_30&group_id=43021 Zeev > -----Original Message----- > From: Orna Agmon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 8:13 AM > To: guy keren > Cc: Zeev Halevi; Orna Agmon; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Haifux] Proposed lecture > > > On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, guy keren wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Zeev Halevi wrote: > > > > > How about: > > > First hour: What is SNMP, how does it work , typical > usages, mibs etc. - > > > technical > > > Second hour: What can OpenNMS do for large system administrators. > > > > i guess this sounds better ;) > > > > > I want to use this lecture as an opportunity to "promote" > OpenNMS among > > > NMS guys and systemadministrators - nothing commercial, > just people from > > > the OpenNMS mailing list who want to hear more,so I > expect some people > > > with SNMP background will attend. > > > > we'll see about that, i guess. just take into account that > most people in > > the club are not system administrators of large sites, nor > NMS people > > (at least as far as i know - perhaps we should run surveys > in the club > > Asking on haifux IS a survey. > > > to find out), but perhaps this lecture will attract new > people - if we > > also manage to publish it to real sys-admins and NMS people. > > > > I just asked a real sysadmin, who does not attend Haifux. She said she > already has Ganglia (open source SNMP from Berkley - > http://ganglia.sf.net ) installed, but if she had not, she would have > liked to hear about it. She also said she knows a lot of > other bug systems > which are not managed well, and could use an SNMP. > > I think it is only a matter of reaching the right people. > > Which brings me to mentioning the huge number of people yesterday - I > counted 37. Top record. I believe it is because (for the > first time, as I > recall) the semester was opened with a regular lecture, and not a W2L > lecture. > > I think we lose the people who are really interested in Linux > every year, > because they get tired of waiting for the regular lectures to > begin, and > W2L is not for them. > > So I suggest timing W2L in the future such that there is at least one > regular lecture before, with a good proven lecturer such as Gilad > Ben-Yossef. > > Orna. > -- > Orna Agmon http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~ladypine/ > ICQ: 348759096 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
