Chris Glanville wrote:
I'm working on a project to implement a suite of network management/monitoring tools. Something like OpenView. I'm trying to do it all with open source software, and I was curious what tools you've used or seen used, and what their pro's and con's are. Right now I'm looking at things like OpenNMS (www.opennms.org), Nagios (www.nagios.org), and Cacti (www.raxnet.net/products/cacti).
http://nedi.web.psi.ch/
Nedi is a lifesaver. It works on L2, unlike HPOV. It is a huge perl script that connects via snmp or telnet to one switch/router then uses CDP to traverse the entire network.
The BEST part: it maps mac/hostname -> switchport. This, IMHO, is the most important information ever. Knowing where a host actually lives has made my life _much_ easier.
Note: I started using this ~1 year ago. My name is on the website's news page because I wrote a little code to make it parse port listings for cisco's "secure ports." I'm not giving biased info, I'm just a user :)
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