Sorry, I overlooked the %home% requirement. My mind had been side-tracked by the XKCD cartoon browsing.
From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 3:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OpenSource Network/Systems Monitoring Thanks. I'll try that. They're pretty much ruled out for home use, though, as those particular restrictions would cripple my attempts to monitor my servers effectively. ASB (My XeeSM Profile) <http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker> Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Kim Longenbaugh <[email protected]> wrote: If you call them, they are pretty flexible about the demo limits. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 2:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OpenSource Network/Systems Monitoring It looks cool, but I hate how neutered the free edition is. Sigh. The 25 device limit is actually good (because most do 10), but the 2 transactions per managed device limit totally undermines that. http://www.heroix.com/aspscript/Longitude_package_features.asp Also, the demo download for the professional version limits you to 10 devices managed. Huh? ASB (My XeeSM Profile) <http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker> Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Kim Longenbaugh <[email protected]> wrote: Please take a look at Longitude, by Heroix. http://www.heroix.com/agentless/network_monitoring_software.htm From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 9:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OpenSource Network/Systems Monitoring The Zenoss config has not been suitably reliable, and the networking team in particular has found OpenNMS to be more intuitive from a network device monitoring standpoint. I haven't ruled it out 100%, but we'd have to see rejection of Zabbix, Hyperic and OpenNMS first. Not sure which Zenoss version -- will check today. ASB On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> wrote: What version of Zenoss? The free one? We are implementing the commercial version, altho I'm not a big fan... we've had some pain with it. I don't want to derail your thread, but as an aside I'd be interested in knowing why you are moving away from Zenoss. -sc From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 9:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OpenSource Network/Systems Monitoring I know a lot of you use Nagios for your oss monitoring needs, but I'd love to hear from people who have tested multiple products: I'm looking to upgrade the monitoring at %WORK% from a combination of Old SiteScope and some Zenoss, to one of the following: * OpenNMS -- http://www.opennms.org/ * Zabbix -- http://www.zabbix.com/ <http://www.zabbix.com/download.php> * Hyperic -- http://www.hyperic.com/products/open-source-systems-monitoring I don't want separate consoles for Servers and Network devices, as we do today. And I'm not so concerned about commercial support, although it would be a plus to deploy an option that has both community support and commercial support options. I've used Nagios in the past, but I prefer to deploy and manage something that is less finicky to initially configure -- especially since I won't be managing it directly. I don't care what platform it runs on. I'll likely run it in a VM, unless performance is horrid. Here are some relevant stats: * ~250 Windows and Linux servers (85% / 15%) * -- 20% of the environment is virtualized (ESX/ESXi) * -- Windows = 2003 & 2008 * -- Linux = Ubuntu * ~50 Network Devices (90% Cisco) * Currently, devices to be monitored are in 4 locations, including the NOC, with 2 more to come online by year's end * Monitoring server can run on Linux or Windows -- no preference * Need agents (if supported) for Windows, Linux, and one Mac Oh, and on a side note, I'm likely going to run whatever I pick for %WORK% on my home network as well. Thoughts, comments, etc? 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