[NCSA-discuss] Network Monitoring preferences

[Matt Pusateri]

Craig Cook wrote:
>> 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?
>>     
>
> Depends on budget, your environment (mix of Operating Systems, number of boxes, number of desired services to monitor) and what you are trying to achieve. 
>
> If this is a "proof-of-concept" start with one monitoring server on existing hardware and one client of each platform to monitor.  Manually install the clients.
>
> Something like hobbitmon will auto update its own unix clients (not true for windows yet)
>
> You should use your standard deployment method to send updates to devices on your network, eg. cfengine, puppet, radmind, (some commercial tool), etc.  If you are not running a deployment tool already you should look at installing and understanding that before you try large scale deployments.
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What I meant by this thread, was would you rather deploy something on a 
stand alone box by downloading the software via and ISO or your would 
rather have a VMware image.  The monitoring solution I was talking about 
is http://www.commandcenter-noc.com.  I was trying not to have a 
shameless plug, but apparently I didn't explain my question well enough 
because everyone is misunderstanding :(  Currently we have a vmware 
image, and I think we should also have an ISO.  How many people would 
run their whole monitoring system in a VM?  How many would dedicate a 
spare box to it, and load the the solution from an ISO.  We have a free 
vmware image download of it now(limited to the number of devices you can 
monitor in the free version) and I was trying to gage the interest in an 
ISO.  We're finishing up a new release and I'm trying to push the new 
release to also have a ISO version.  Sorry for all the cloak and dagger, 
but I really was trying not to make this a sales related question.

Matt P.