Eric W. Bates wrote: > You might consider OpenNMS. Icinga like Nagios is really just a piece of > what one might consider an NMS. > > e.g. Icinga does not do auto-discover. Icinga does not provide an > inventory of your equipment. Icinga does not generate network maps.
can be done with various addons, as this is the way to go - play lego technic. - checkmk - nagvis - pnp4nagios feel free to use other addons or plugins to achieve from what you're benefiting the most. > > However, it is worth noting that in my personal experience many of those > features provided by a fuller NMS solution are not necessarily worth the > kind of time necessary to set up and keep maintained. It probably > depends a lot on the scale of your operation. A related question might > be: can you afford to staff a person whose full time responsibility is > simply NMS? > > On 11/2/2011 10:50 AM, Radha Krishna Srimanthula wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am evaluating an NMS to be used for monitoring our devices. I seek >> your help to see if ICINGA will be a good fit for my requirements. My >> questions are as follows: >> >> 1. We intend to enable SNMP on our embedded devices using net-snmp and >> use an NMS to monitor those devices. Polling for data at various >> intervals, receiving snmp traps and logging appropriate messages is >> what is planned. Is there a better way to monitor these devices? >> 2. Are there any known instances where the above has been achieved >> using ICINGA? Can you please share your experiences - best practices >> and avoidable pitfalls? >> 3. Our embedded devices are expected to be behind firewalls at the >> customer locations. Any suggestions on the best way to handle these >> scenarios? >> >> Any information regarding the above will be highly appreciated. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Radha >> <http://www.sradhakrishna.com> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> RSA® Conference 2012 >> Save $700 by Nov 18 >> Register now! >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> icinga-users mailing list >> icinga-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/icinga-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > RSA® Conference 2012 > Save $700 by Nov 18 > Register now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 > _______________________________________________ > icinga-users mailing list > icinga-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/icinga-users -- DI (FH) Michael Friedrich Vienna University Computer Center Universitaetsstrasse 7 A-1010 Vienna, Austria email: michael.friedr...@univie.ac.at phone: +43 1 4277 14359 mobile: +43 664 60277 14359 fax: +43 1 4277 14338 web: http://www.univie.ac.at/zid http://www.aco.net Icinga Core& IDOUtils Developer http://www.icinga.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA® Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ icinga-users mailing list icinga-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/icinga-users
