Craig White wrote: > > Thus far (and admittedly this is premature), I find Zenoss a lot beefier > but I spent a ton of time setting it up the first time until I figured > things out whereas I spent comparatively no time setting OpenNMS up. But > I have learned things along the way, especially getting SNMP set up on > everything I could. Basically, Opennms will auto-discover the ranges you give it, detecting an assortment of services and snmp, then automatically poll what it discovers on 5 minute intervals and report outages. You can configure thresholds levels in the snmp data to generate alarms. You have to add whatever setup you want for external notificatons - they are off by default but you can set up email destinations, a jabber group conference, etc. There are near-infinite other options, of course, but that covers most of what you are likely to want. I found this pdf with a much nicer overview: http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=2&q=http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2009/programme/introduction-to-opennms.pdf&ei=jNvvSd3xDtTelQfphIDZDA&sig2=7vpdGBzMcZoATeczKIZh7g&usg=AFQjCNEy6gnHrSgQOneREKleuRvgAssmHw > This is a Dell PowerConnect 6248 'managed' switch so I would think it > could. I enabled monitoring on all of the ports just in case. I wouldn't be too hopeful without some extra work. I have a pair of Dell 5324's and am not getting the link info, but it works on a bunch of different cisco models. It does collect the bandwidth data from the Dells - the rest might be a matter of adding more of the oid trees to the 'included' view but the Dell switch management is kind of weird. Per http://www.opennms.org/index.php/Linkd you need the .iso.org.dod.internet.mgmt.mib-2.ip.ipNetToMediaTable values. > One thing that is throwing me for a loop is that it says all the > Macintosh systems are a 10Mbps SNMP connection but on the Macs > themselves, they clearly indicate 1Gbps. This somewhat tracks all of the > pain that I have had with SNMP collection on the Macs, which on Zenoss > has been less than spectacular. I hadn't tried a Mac before - the default settings don't look that promising. It should all boil down to getting the oid trees you need exposed, though. > For example, I get installed software > list, total installed memory, total hard drive space, free hard drive > space on all Linux and Windows systems but only get total hard drive > space and total installed memory on Macs. On Zenoss, I have resorted to > ssh collection on Macs because snmp collection just sort of sucks. Might be a good topic for the opennms list. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com