Thank you all for you suggestions, I knew it that NANOG is a perfect place for those kind of questions. I will discuss your comments with my colleagues to see what would be the best solution. Once again thank you all for your valuable suggestions, I hope I will update you soon with some results/test and of course more questions :)
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 6:18 AM, Tom Sands <tsa...@rackspace.com> wrote: > We have used ZenOss for a number of years at this scale (40k+ devices, at > intervals of 1-5 minutes). It is possible to do if you have the hardware > and storage performance to throw at it. We used OpenNMS before that and had > to change due to scale. During that time we evaluated a number of the big > name and big dollar solutions and none of them seemed to scale any better > without significantly more hardware costs. > That's not to say ZenOss is perfect, we have plenty of headaches too. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Sep 29, 2015, at 10:40 PM, Joel Whitcomb <joel.whitc...@citrix.com> > wrote: > > > > So we have used www.zenoss.org for many years. Individual collectors > are easily handling snmp poll rates of 1.5k oids per second(450k per 5m). > As zenoss core is open source Its probably worth a look for you. > > > > -Joel > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces+joel.whitcomb=citrix....@nanog.org] > On Behalf Of Pavel Dimow > > Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 1:20 PM > > To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> > > Subject: SNMP - monitoring large number of devices > > > > Hi all, > > > > recently I have been tasked with a NMS project. The idea is to pool about > > 20 OID's from 50k cable modems in less then 5 minutes (yes, I know it's > a one million OID's). Before you say check out some very professional and > expensive solutions I would like to know are there any alternatives like > open source "snmp framework"? To be more descriptive many of you knows how > big is the mess with snmp on cable modem. You always first perform snmp > walk in order to discover interfaces and then read the values for those > interfaces. As cable modem can bundle more DS channels, one time you can > have one and other time you can have N+1 DS channels = interfaces. All in > all I don't believe that there is something perfect out there when it comes > to tracking huge number of cable modems so I would like to know is there > any "snmp framework" that can be exteded and how did you (or would you) > solve this problem. > > > > Thank you. >