I think all of these comments are useful. but we are looking for NMS for server/application monitoring, not snmp/dmi based polling. We will need a system that runs custom scripts to monitor our servers (CPU, OS syslogs, Windows Event logs, hardware, memory, etc) and our in-house applications running on these servers (100+). Native agents for windows 2003, 2008, Linux and Solaris (both Sparc and x86) with custom scripting is a minimum requirements. There are a lot of good network router/switch solutions, but we are looking for some that are more focused on server based management. We used to use BMC patrol which was a very good system. We moved away from it because it was extremely pricey per-node and BMC absolute rejection of Solaris X86 as a supported platform (We went back and forth between Sun and BMC regarding that for over a year).
---- Matthew Huff | One Manhattanville Rd OTA Management LLC | Purchase, NY 10577 http://www.ox.com | Phone: 914-460-4039 aim: matthewbhuff | Fax: 914-460-4139 > -----Original Message----- > From: Will Clayton [mailto:wclay...@corenap.com] > Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 12:58 PM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: Opensource or Low Cost NMS for Server Hardware / > Application Monitoring > > Eric Gauthier wrote: > > Hello, > > > > > >> As for server / application / random other stuff (like printers and > >> ups's and IP camera and the like), Zenoss is great -- its clean, > >> simple, fast(ish), easy and pretty -- the last one happens to be > >> important for some folks (esp in the enterprise world...) > >> > > > > We've looked at ZenOSS but couldn't get it to model the network. > > >From what we can tell, it couldn't handle the full routing table > > on our core routers (there are six). If someone has successfully > > done this, can you contact me off list? > > > > Eric :) > > I like NMIS. Fast, scalable, flexible and really hackable. It doesn't > take much time to get it up and running but selling others on it can be > challenging. It works off of flat tab delimited text files making > populating the node base pretty easy. There are plans for NMIS5 to use > database connectivity for this which will be even more fun. There are > external contributions that do everything from RANCID to Flash maps of > your network. The home page is here: > > http://sins.com.au/nmis/ > > But has since moved to sourceforge: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/nmis/files/ > > With the gang being here: > > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/nmis_users/ > > While not for everyone and not as popular or pretty as some of the > others, it is a network monitoring system built by engineers for > engineers. With a combination of SNMP data collection and ping/service > tests, bandwidth utilization alerts, alert groups, thresholds etc. can > be adjusted on a per-device basis and just a week of utilization can > really help you identify points on the network that need to be cleaned > up. > > I guess my favorite part is the ability to write device interface > descriptions to trigger actions in the Perl script since that data is > collected via SNMP. > > -- > Will Clayton >
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