On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 13:47 +0000, msarro wrote: > Greetings everyone! I hope you are all doing well. > > I am currently exploring monitoring options for my company. We currently > monitor all of our servers with an advanced SNMP/WMI monitoring utility. > > This morning my manager asked me to try and find a way to monitor bandwidth > utilization for our second (production) network. This is something that our > current utility cannot do. > > I was wondering if Zenoss is capable of doing this? I don't need to monitor > servers so much as just monitoring the utilization of our T3. I'm also > checking out tools like Nagios and MRTG. How hard would it be to configure if > Zenoss is in fact capable? What would the rough process entail to get it up > and running? > > Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much!
If all you want to do is monitor and graph one router and it's interface (the T3 you speak of), then MRTG or Cricket would be a much better fit. Much less drama. If you have dozens of switches and routers that you want to monitor and graph, then Zenoss becomes more useful (although I'd still point towards Cricket). If you have dozens of switches and routers and dozens of servers (probably of mixed OS types) that you want to monitor and graph, then Zenoss becomes almost a hands-down winner. The strength, in my opinion, of Zenoss, is its ability to intelligently (based on templates) keep track of diverse assets and provide an interface to them. I've used Nagios for may years, and have recently moved to Zenoss because of its templating and potential for real user-level customization (although it's not there yet, as a "user" can't do much other than change the refresh of their dashboard (*grumble*) As to how to setup Zenoss, I'll leave that to the numerous guides on the Zenoss website. _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
