That is pretty much what I have gathered using friend Google. Always like to get observations from the list when possible, I like talk to people that have actually used the products if pos- sible.
Looking at Nagios, it appears that it will allow me to monitor not only the network equipment and computers, but anything else that can produce a data stream which it can capture, so that is pretty impressive, in it's own way. It is config file driven so it appears that you just set up the config files and you are running. There are add on modules for all kinds of data so it would appear to be great for monitoring all processes in the plant. Icinga is a fork of Nagios, I have found VM's that run both of them, I downloaded the Nagios VM (one of many called FAN or Nagios FAN, Fully Automated Nagios) I will start to work with it when I get in Monday. There is one for Icinga too, and I plan on pulling that down and trying them in parallel. Then I will move one or the other to a ESXi5.1 Host I have running. This thing may be able to deal with the data stream coming off of the inspection machines, in which case I can combine even more stuff into screens for different functions. On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 7:44 AM, MJang <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2014-07-04 at 12:14 -0700, Chuck Hast wrote: > > Folks, > > Our plant fibre rings use Hirschmann switches, Hirschmann has a tool > > to view the devices and other devices, it allows one to see each piece > > of the network, and if the devices have SNMP enabled it will show many > > of the device attributes if they are part of what SNMP can view. > > > > The software is about 7 years old, I have called them to find out about > > a update, they really do not know, some say that the old license should > > allow for a update to the present code level others do not. A new license > > is $1500.00 + > > > > I am trying to figure out if there is a good FOSS solution for SNMP > > monitoring, > > I think the OSS standard is still Nagios, though a couple of people at > work like Icinga. > > Our focus is on monitoring based in MIBs, which I gather is a subset of > what SNMP can view. > > Thanks, > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- Glass, five thousand years of history and getting better. The only container material that the USDA gives blanket approval on. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
