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 > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >