[Gllug] Suggestion about Network Monitoring software - Open source/Free

Hakuna Matata narender.hooda at gmail.com
Thu Aug 28 06:58:06 UTC 2008


Thank you Sam,

can i monitor my VM environment as well.

--Narender

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Kilaru Sambaiah <ksambaiah at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>    If you wanted to stick to SNMP data and good interface with Java OpenNMS
> is best.
>    (You can monitor other services but sure how good it is). OpenNMS is the
> way to go
>    if you stick to SNMP.
>    Cacti is another one and you can try either cacti or nagios if OpenNMS is
> not the choice.
>    http://www.cacti.net/
> thanks,
> Sam
>
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 4:56 AM, Hakuna Matata <narender.hooda at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> we want to implement a network monitoring software in our organization.
>>
>> we want to monitor services like ftp/web/mysql/mssql/vmware and
>> performance and up time of servers.
>>
>> i want the software to be more reports oriented so that i can present
>> them to the management guys.
>>
>> I did some goggling and found the below software.
>>
>>
>> 1. GroundWork Open Source IT Monitoring and Network Monitoring Software
>>        www.groundworkopensource.com/
>> 2. Nagios - Network Monitoring Software
>>       www.nagios.org/
>> 3.Zenoss Home - Commercial Open Source Network, Systems
>>        www.zenoss.com
>> 4. IPTraf - An IP Network Monitor
>>     iptraf.seul.org/
>> 5. http://www.opennms.org/index.php/Main_Page
>> 6.http://www.zabbix.com/
>> 7.http://www.odcnms.org/
>> 8.http://www.zenoss.com/
>>
>>
>> By first glance on the websites it looks like Zabbix/Zenoss/Groundwork
>> have very good reporting features. Reporting is curicial part for me
>> as we are are thinking of replacing SiteScope as our current
>> monitoring system.
>>
>>
>> Please advise if someone in the list have some suggestions.
>>
>>
>>
>> Many thanks in advance.
>>
>> Best Regards
>>
>> --NK
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