[NCSA-discuss] Network Monitoring preferences

[Matt Pusateri]

Chris,

Thanks for your response. What I was really asking about was the method 
in which you would deploy your network monitoring solution, not which 
one you use. I've been trying to avoid a shameless plug for the product 
that the company I work for makes. :) Anyways we've put out a VMware 
image of it with a limited license(it used to be a trail license - now 
it's a limited node version with a 10 year license) It was born out of 
the original OpenNMS code, but it really has surpassed it. One of the 
reason's I wanted to know how you would deploy it, was I was trying to 
gage interest in ISO that installs OS/Network Monitoring app on your own 
box versus a VMware image. Or whether a XEN image or other virtual image 
would be preferred.


Anyways thanks for your time.

Matt P.

<shameless_plug> http://www.commandcenter-noc.com </shameless_plug>


Chris Bullock wrote:
> We use nagios at our shop.  It is a lot more granular than our use.  It
> has a vmware image that you can get from the vmware appliance page.  We
> have about 75% linux and the rest are Windows servers.  We are running HP
> servers and there are plugins that attach to the HP system management
> homepage app that gives us the hardware status.  There is a site called
> nagiosexchange where you can download many plugs for nagios.  You can also
> set up what I call zones of servers, ie if you have servers on a certain
> subnet and your router for that subnet goes down it is intelligent enough
> to let you know that only the router interface is down instead of
> bombarding you with hundreds of false positives about the servers behind
> the router.  I have not looked at this in depth but I was at a health care
> seminar and the University of Maryland is using this and they are using it
> to monitor services and if the services go down nagios will attempt to
> restart the service (while sending you an email) and if the service does
> not restart after a few tries it will send a page.  
>
> Some people in the area swear by OpenNMS but we found it was a little
> harder to configure, I guess thats why they sell support.
> Regards,
> Chris
>
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>> Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 09:20:52 -0400
>> From: Matt Pusateri <mpusateri at wickedtrails.com>
>> Subject: [NCSA-discuss] Network Monitoring preferences
>> To: ncsa-discussion at ncsysadmin.org
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>> Hello fellow sysadmins,
>>
>> I'm curious to know if you were to deploy a network monitoring solution 
>> similar to Nagios or OpenNMS, what would be your preferred method of 
>> deployment?  Also what type of environment are you in Windows shop, 
>> Linux/FOSS shop, mixed?
>>
>> A. A VMware image, or state your preferred virtual software program.
>>
>> B. An ISO image that you could burn and then could have an automated 
>> install that not only put the network software on, but installed a 
>> preconfigured OS as well.
>>
>> C. A hardware appliance, that could be purchased.
>>
>>
>> I realize this is all rather vague, just wanting to get some feed back 
>> on how people would rather deploy software solutions.
>>
>>
>> Matt P.
>>
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