network management solutions
by LRN on Jul.31, 2008, under b5media
What to do? I’ve been playing with the open source version of hyperic for a while now. While I still revert to MRTG for an immediate view of what’s going on with my key servers, I do like the hyperic interface. Unfortunately, their pricing structure doesn’t exactly scale very well, and you need the enterprise version if you plan on doing anything other than passive monitoring.
The b5media infrastructure upgrade will see us leaving a managed DC, and entering the world of DIY big time. Time to explore functional open source solutions. Nagios and OpenNMS are my front runners right now. I’ll be test driving Nagios over the next couple of days, see if it can fulfill all our requirements for hardware and service monitoring. OpenNMS looks to be more geared to >1 support staff, and may be the way to go a little bit further down the road.
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