Hi everyone,
Great thread. Thanks to all for their input!
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."
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).
Let me know if folks think of other ideas.
Thanks again,
Kennedy
On 9/22/05, Todd Reed <treed@astate.edu> 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.
Here is how I installed OpenNMS and it's prereqs. It's rough, but it works.
Installing Java and Tomcat
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