>> Two, hours of attempting to get cacti to work have led me to be >> underimpressed with the whole project. > >That's odd because other than the usual php version issues I've always >considered cacti to be the easiest of the graphing tools to get working >- but I haven't tried the most recent versions. Last I looked at Cacti, the hack to get some plugin support didn't work for me and I didn't have the patience to waste time with it, dropped it. Munin never had zooming graphs, and needed a cgi to prevent obscene load in anything other than a trivial environment, dropped it. I have Nagios and PNP and it works well. Since your first reco to me about OpenNMS I have been intrigued, it looks like a very nice project and is very active. Ironically I do almost all my Nagios monitoring via snmp and where I can't normally use snmp, I create extends... >If you are willing to hack some ugly-looking xml files that specify the >oids and time intervals you can probably make opennms work for you - and >you might find its other features (thresholding, notifications, etc.) >useful too. Yeah, I also want to take the time to learn this package, it does look very powerful. Whit, if you are starting from scratch, I would second the reco to invest the time in OpenNMS and just learn something solid from day one. jlc