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Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools
From: John Kinsella <jlk () thrashyour com>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 12:59:41 -0700
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 02:47:45PM -0500, Claydon, Tom wrote:
I'm looking for open-source alternatives for network management, such as Nagios or Big Brother. We are currently using WhatsUp Gold, and would like to move to something more flexible (and not running on a Windows platform). Something that has email/paging capabilities, and can process SNMP traps would be a plus for us as well.
Christ, WhatsUp Gold...that's giving me flashbacks! Have you checked out... http://www.nagios.org http://www.bb4.org ? :) I suspect what you might be looking for is something like OpenNMS, http://www.opennms.org There's a few other packages out there, but IMHO they all suck in one way or another. John
Current thread:
- Open-Source Network Management Tools Claydon, Tom (Sep 14)
- Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools John Kinsella (Sep 14)
- Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools Alexei Roudnev (Sep 15)
- RE: Open-Source Network Management Tools Philippe Ombredanne (Sep 14)
- Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools John Kinsella (Sep 14)
- RE: Open-Source Network Management Tools Philippe Ombredanne (Sep 14)
- Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools John Kinsella (Sep 14)
- Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools Steve Francis (Sep 15)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Open-Source Network Management Tools Lucas Iglesias (Sep 14)
- Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools Alexei Roudnev (Sep 15)
- Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools Mark Newton (Sep 15)
- Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools Wes Hardaker (Sep 15)
- Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools Alexei Roudnev (Sep 15)
- Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools John Kinsella (Sep 14)
- RE: Open-Source Network Management Tools Michael Smith (Sep 15)