[CentOS] Recommendation On Ping And Alert Tool

[ABOKHALAF, Nassri Abdellatif]

Just wanted to add one more tool to make this threat complete.

See Opmanager at

http://manageengine.adventnet.com/products/opmanager/ 

The free edition is really nice if you have a small network to monitor.

Nassri

> 
> Try the following .. It rocks ..
> 
> JFFNMS
>  	
> http://jffnms.sourceforge.net
> 
> 
> Very powerful tool ..
> 
> BRW
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Todd Reed
> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 12:38 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: RE: [CentOS] Recommendation On Ping And Alert Tool
> 
> Try OpenNMS.  Nagios and Zabbix can also do historical data, 
> although I'm not sure about SNMP.  I've tried using both and 
> by dar, I feel that OpenNMS is easier to work with.  The 
> installation of Tomcat and Java is the hardest item.  I do 
> know that OpenNMS can do SNMP.  Pretty much, I give OpenNMS 
> the IP address and it finds the common services.  You may 
> have to go in and define custom services (I had to since my 
> Oracle servers have multiple listener ports).  It will try 
> the default SNMP string, but if you change it, there is a web 
> form to change it.  You can also enter your asset information 
> through the web form.
> 
> You can also create custom reports that can be called on the fly.
> 
> Check out http://www.opennms.org for the screen shots and 
> more information.
> 
> 
> I've been working with it for about 2 weeks and already I'm 
> able to do more with it than Nagios or Zabbix.  The only 
> thing I liked about Nagios is the WRML graph, but I mainly 
> want to see a status grid and that's it.
> 
> --Todd
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell
> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 2:29 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: RE: [CentOS] Recommendation On Ping And Alert Tool
> 
> On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 14:21, Todd Reed wrote:
> > I previously used Nagios and because of the painful 
> configurations, I
> found
> > OpenNMS.  It does all I need and more, being more easier 
> than Nagios.  
> > It uses PostgreSQL and runs on top of Tomcat4.
> 
> Do any of these alternatives combine the ability to monitor 
> current status with a grid-like display of many systems and 
> services with notification alarms and also keep long-term 
> historical graphs of
> values?   I'm currently running spong for notifications/status and
> cacti for history/graphs, but I'd like to find something that 
> does both with one snmp query.
> 
> --
>   Les Mikesell
>     lesmikesell at gmail.com
> 
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