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Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools

  • From: Steve Francis
  • Date: Wed Sep 15 13:08:22 2004


Claydon, Tom wrote:


I'm looking for open-source alternatives for network management, such as
Nagios or Big Brother. We are currently using WhatsUp Gold, and would
like to move to something more flexible (and not running on a Windows
platform). Something that has email/paging capabilities, and can process
SNMP traps would be a plus for us as well.

Recommendations?

Thanks.




I'll add remstats (http://remstats.sourceforge.net/release/)
The big strength of it I found over other systems is it integrates monitoring and alerting (a la nagios) with visual trending, which makes it much easier to see what your alerts should be set at and if you need to start worrying.


There's kind of been parallel development - the sourceforge version has some new features, another train I have has a lot of performance enhancements to allow different periods of polling; multiple snmp collectors to distribute load; parallized collections, etc.