I'm often faced with issues that most solutions on the net just don't work on, due to certain restrictions imposed on us; half our customer base is DoD, so instead of having 2 products to maintain, both sides end up with the same stuff. So while our commercial side /can/ do certain things (like snmp), the DoD side /can't/, and if we solve for the DoD airgap then why not use that same solution for the commercial side. I'm repeating myself.
Currently, I'm looking for edge-aware monitoring systems that don't rely on snmp (which throws nagios and anything nagios-based right out the window). There's a long list of requirements (page different people for different types of issues, edge-aware, fail over to diff group if no response after X minutes, no snmp, and most importantly - server must pull the data, the clients cannot initiate the connection). Google, et. al, is just filled with about.com sites and that ilk, such that one can't get good info there anymore. So the second question...seems like if there was a user group that was folks who were under the same limits (ie, other DoD vendors), then I could ask them as they'd have similar needs. Anyone know of such a group? Throw "user group" into a search engine and it just gets the convention-marketing hits, as if a 1-hour info session with strangers at a convention is some sort of cohesive community, something akin to the user groups of yore (like LUGs...like KPLUG...). So anyone have a DoD-vendors-user-group, or edge-aware, enterprise-level, open-source, non-snmp, server-pull monitoring solution suggestion? Brian -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
