On Monday 23 August 2004 16:53, Mark Tinka wrote: > On Tuesday 24 August 2004 00:47, Ernest Byaruhanga wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Begumisa Gerald M wrote: > > > On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Ernest Byaruhanga wrote: > > > > i think rrdtool is an improved mrtg - since it uses round-robin > > > > database idea to collect and represent data. > > > > > > In addition, you can configure the "old" MRTG to *use* rrdtool for data > > > storage & graphing. > > > > actually, i'd like to know if someone has used anything better than > > Nagios. Something that would sniff the hosts in the network and give me > > some (not so accurate but) cute layout of my network infra. > > HP OpenView, but that's relative (and expensive).
The closest I've come to HP OpenView is OpenNMS[1] - and the related project OSSIM[2]. They are not products as such, but combine the use of rrdtool, nessus, snort et al to come up with some frankeinstein of sorts :-D that can be convinced to do some advanced stuff... choose your poison :-D > > Mark. > > -- Patrick. [1] Home page for OpenNMS is http://www.opennms.org; description from freshmeat follows: About: OpenNMS is an effort to build a fully distributed network management platform providing both enterprise and element management capabilities, using Java 2, XML/XSL and other open source projects/tools such as RRDTool, Nessus, Tomcat, and PostgreSQL. [2]Home page for OSSIM is http://www.ossim.net/ description from freshmeat is: About: OSSIM aims to unify network monitoring, security, correlation, and qualification in one single tool. It combines Snort, Acid, MRTG, NTOP, OpenNMS, nmap, nessus, and rrdtool to provide the user with full control over every aspect of networking or security. --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
