Hi everyone,<br>
<br>
Great thread. Thanks to all for their input! <br>
<br>
Bryan asks a good question about whether we are looking for a full SNMP
tool. Actually, we have some pretty big systems that already
handle those functions. For this project, we are just looking for
ping-type "is it up or down" information on a "subset of the overall
network."<br>
<br>
It looks like Jacob's recommendation for Mon could be spot on.
But, that being said, OpenNMS and Zabbix look pretty cool and worth a
look (possibly for other projects with more complex needs). Re a
script, I was going to do something like that if I couldn't get
anything here :-) but I was trying to avoid having to add in the
"don't send and email every time it checks during a prolonged outage"
(just send at the beginning and maybe the end).<br>
<br>
Let me know if folks think of other ideas.<br>
<br>
Thanks again,<br>
Kennedy<br>
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/22/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Todd Reed</b> <<a href="mailto:treed@astate.edu">treed@astate.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I previously used Nagios and because of the painful configurations, I found<br>OpenNMS. It does all I need and more, being more easier than Nagios. It<br>uses PostgreSQL and runs on top of Tomcat4.<br><br>Here is how I installed OpenNMS and it's prereqs. It's rough, but it works.
<br><br>Installing Java and Tomcat<br>--------------<br></blockquote></div>...<br>