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On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 17:42, Jay Loden wrote:
> Well, I'm not terribly familiar with Open Source NMS stuff, but I work for 
> Fidelia Techology - we make Helix and NetVigil, network monitoring software. 
> Helix is our smaller software, which is probably more in the range you're 
&gt; describing. <a  rel="nofollow" href="http://fidelia.com/products";>http://fidelia.com/products</a>
&gt; 
&gt; Our software does autodiscovery of your network topology, automatically sets 
&gt; up tests and default thresholds, etc. Basically you install it and you're up 
&gt; and running in an hour or two. you'll have up/down status reports, as well as 
&gt; stuff like disk usage, CPU, etc - whatever is monitorable by SNMP or WMI. Our 
&gt; software also does historical data and fancy graphs, etc.
&gt; 
&gt; That being said, I've also used Nagios, previous to being hired by Fidelia - 
&gt; as a matter of fact, I posted to ALE when I was setting it up looking for 
&gt; some help with it. Nagios was capable of decent options, but the 
&gt; configuration files were really rough to wade through. The documentation was 
&gt; lacking, so setting it up and making it work was pretty difficult, at least 
&gt; for me at my level of experience. It was capable, however, and had options 
&gt; for dependencies, service monitoring, and so on, and of course it's free 
&gt; software.
&gt; 
&gt; If it's in your budget and you don't mind close source software, I'd 
&gt; definitely recommend one of our products, if only because the amount of time 
&gt; you save with the auto-discovery of devices and not needing to go through 
&gt; config files to create hosts and service tests.
&gt; 
&gt; If you only have a really small number of devices, (I think you mentioned 5 
&gt; routers and a switch?) it might actually be easier/quicker to write your own 
&gt; set of scripts than to try and set up Nagios. There's a LOT of options and 
&gt; config files for Nagios, and it took me as long to set it up to monitor a 
&gt; dozen or so servers as it probably would have to write a set of scripts to 
&gt; serve the purpose.
&gt; 
&gt; -Jay
&gt; 
&gt; On Monday 04 July 2005 02:28 pm, brucelists at bellsouth.net wrote:
&gt; &gt; Hey all,
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt;       I'm considering putting in a basic NMS for my lab. Have any of you
&gt; &gt; worked with open source NMS systems? Any recommendations? I'm looking to do
&gt; &gt; basic up/down monitoring and a tftp server for IOS and router/switch
&gt; &gt; configurations.
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt;       I haven't played with any, but it looks like Bigsister and Nagios are
&gt; &gt; the primary choices. I also looked a little at OpenNMS and NMIS
&gt; &gt; (<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://www.sins.com.au/nmis/";>http://www.sins.com.au/nmis/</a>) from the Cisco-Centric Open Source project.
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