Too much widsom in just a single email Paolo
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 09:04:13AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: jacob miller > > Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 4:36 AM > > To: nanog@nanog.org > > Subject: Re: Monitoring Tools > > > > Phil, > > > > Am looking for availability reports,bandwidth usage,alerting service > > and ability to create different logins to users so they can access > diff > > objects > > > > Thnks, > > Jacob, > > I have not yet found a monitoring environment to my liking and I have > seen most of them over the years. That is a project that could keep > someone busy for a decade or so (and is one of the things I might work > on when I retire). It seems that the more configurable they are, the > less intuitive they are and more difficult to get configured properly. > Many of the open source tools have only one or two active developers who > also have lives outside the project and dealing with a flood of feature > requests from the field can be more than they can reasonably > accommodate. The commercial monitoring environments can be extremely > expensive and very difficult to configure. More important than > configuring them is maintaining that configuration over time as things > change. I have seen many monitoring environments installed and > configured only to become somewhat useless and disused over time as the > configuration isn't kept up to date. > > Good luck in your search but in my experience it generally comes down to > putting together a hodge-podge of various tools that give a specific > operation the information it needs as those needs vary from one > operation to the next. > > One problem, too, with these tools is that they often collect duplicate > information. It would be nice to have some common collector/store so > that other tools can pull the information out of that store. Why have > three different tools querying snmp stats from the same devices? Having > one collector and sharing the data would be a better approach. There is > an attempt to consolidate various open source tools in a common > framework called GroundWorks. They aren't completely there yet but I > believe they are pointed in the right direction. > > > George > > > >
