[ILUG] Nagios & OpenNMS

[Ryan Frederick]

Hi Esdras,

I've toyed around with Zabbix as well in the past couple of years, but I
agree with you in that I prefer Nagios over Zabbix for the simple reason
of being able to write a program to check anything you wish with Nagios
as long as it can return a string and an exit code.  The one thing I
like about Zabbix is built in graphing, but I know the same thing can be
achieved with Nagios via integration with cacti and/or mrtg (Oklahoma
State University currently uses mrtg).

Ryan

On 2/25/11 11:23 PM, Esdras Neto wrote:
> Hi Ryan,
> 
> For sure it's not a easy decision, since they have "almost" the same
> features, you can see in the web site bellow a list that could help you
> decide.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_network_monitoring_systems
> 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_network_monitoring_systems>I
> have just deployed zabbix, it's a pretty good tool that has a very active
> community. But one thing I tell you, my favorite tool is nagios... simple to
> configure and just works.
> 
> Good look in your new job :)
> 
> Regards,
> Esdras
> 
> 2011/2/26 Ryan Frederick <ryanrfrederick at gmail.com>
> 
>> Okay, so I might be bringing up a tired and much debated question here...
>>
>> I'm going to be heading down to Stillwater, Oklahoma in a week's time to
>> start a sysadmin job in the telecommunications department at Oklahoma
>> State University.  One of the things they expressed to me that they
>> would like is a monitoring system for their servers and networking
>> equipment (they're currently using custom ping scripts).  During my
>> interview I described my experience with Nagios since I've used it
>> extensively on the server side.  But with my new job mostly involving
>> networking equipment I'm pondering OpenNMS a bit.
>>
>> With my very limited experience with OpenNMS (none essentially) I'm
>> wondering what would be best to implement in a more network-oriented
>> side of a server and network equipment environment.  I'm thinking I
>> could achieve the same results with OpenNMS by using Nagios with the
>> check_snmp plugin, and I'd like to monitor some more specific things on
>> the servers that the telecommunications department has (such as disk
>> space, status of certain processes, etc), things I know Nagios can do.
>> Could OpenNMS do the same thing?  Better perhaps?  How difficult is it
>> to transition from configuring Nagios to configuring OpenNMS?
>>
>> Hopefully I'm not opening up a big flame war on this...
>>
>> Ryan
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