Hi Eric, I have to agree in some way form or shape to your post, saying somix can do it is Not realy a technical answer but more a marketing one. I for one use MRTG and WUG But since I have found this combination way to unflexible and limited in function, We are going a complete open source route.
We are using a MYSQL DB to store all Host information like ip address etc, Then we Use from them same guy who wrote MRTG / TOBI a tool called smokeping and RRDTool To store the actual trend data. Now we can do all that what we did with whatsup Gold and way more it it is more flexible since we are not limited to a compiled Program. There are so many things I would like to have seen for whatsup but just have given up on and moved on. One would have been to be able to place the actul Whats up data store on a odbc compl. RDB. Same fore the config files, that would Allow yu to do way more then you can do with XML import and export. Our next step is to build a perl script which will walk a list of hosts and retrive A certain nbr of values, then match them up against the data in our MYSQL DB and Store the nec. Info for mrtg to retrive the snmp values. Once we tackeled that we will go for repacing MRTG and use only RRDTool and SNMP:NET to retrive the snmp values. So there is way to much stuff you can do if you have the time and expertise but one Thing you might will end up is walking away from WINDOWS based system to do that since Support for free open source tools is very limited..... Just my 2 cents -----Original Message----- From: Eric Osterholm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 8:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WhatsUp Forum] WUG & MRTG ? <rant> OK, Denika drones- enough noise on this list! Every time there's a question about MRTG with WUG, there's at least one response from a Somixite. This list has been an extremely useful source of information over the past couple of years, but it's beginning to feel a bit like Somix's soapbox for hawking their wares... I know it's a tempting medium, with a perfect demographic, but Somix is beginning to feel like those annoying X10 emails. What's next, banner ads on www.ipswitch.com? If one of the non-Somix employed members wants to post how Denika has solved a problem for them, that's legitimate and appropriate to this list. I've pulled an eval of Denika down, and agree it is a nice tool (aside from the requirement of an Apache install) for automating the setup of most of the same values that I monitor with MRTG. I may even convince several clients to purchase it... Maybe this is just my Monday-morning- pre-coffee rant; I hate to be the grump... anyone else on this list take exception to the (admittedly light so far) marketing content on this list? At least limit it to no more than one plug a month, Ok? Flames to my personal email accepted- I'll reply (nicely) to all. - Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
