[afnog] OpenSource monitoring tool

[JP Viljoen]

 On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 12:47:17 +0300, ibtisam jamal <ibty.jamal at gmail.com> 
 wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> Please advice based on experience the best open source NMS for
> routers,switches and firewalls.
>
> Something close to Solarwinds.
>
> CPU ,memory ,interface utilization

 Cacti is a good trending tool. We use Zenoss (with reasonable success) 
 for our "active" monitoring. I second Mark's suggestion for Observium as 
 well, it's a fairly solid tool. OpenNMS can work if you already have a 
 lot of people familiar with Java and XML, but it's certainly not my 
 preference. Strongly recommend against Zabbix, I found lots of issues 
 with it as a platform for monitoring.

 -J