Re: Alerting systems, Logicmonitor and/or alternatives

2015-01-28 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:06:26AM -0800, Jay Hennigan wrote: > What I don't like is that they only offer it as a cloud-based service. One of the downsides of all such services is that the more successful they are, the bigger a target they are. And they're a tempting target, since successful pene

RE: Alerting systems, Logicmonitor and/or alternatives

2015-01-28 Thread Raymond Burkholder
> What's the collective opinion here? Is anyone using them or a similar service? > Are there non-cloud-based alternatives that are relatively easy to set up and > manage? We've explored Zabbix, Nagios, MRTG and its various wrappers, > and Intermapper. Anything else new on the horizon that has a GUI

Re: Alerting systems, Logicmonitor and/or alternatives

2015-01-28 Thread Dorance Martinez Cortes
Hi Jay, I have experience with nagios and cacti, now I'm experimenting with logic monitor and observium. The observium is a great tool to discover your network devices but don't have great graphics and don't have any alarm system, but you can get a lot of information about your network devices, co

Re: Alerting systems, Logicmonitor and/or alternatives

2015-01-28 Thread charles
What's the collective opinion here? Is anyone using them or a similar service? Are there non-cloud-based alternatives that are relatively easy to set up and manage? We've explored Zabbix, Nagios, MRTG and its various wrappers, and Intermapper. Anything else new on the horizon that has a GUI

Re: Alerting systems, Logicmonitor and/or alternatives

2015-01-28 Thread Mel Beckman
The value proposition of all cloud services is that you get instant technical capability without building your own infrastructure. I see cloud NMS services like LogicMonitor and Spiceworks as a good deal for small organizations without their own IT people. But for all the reasons you give, the m

Re: Alerting systems, Logicmonitor and/or alternatives

2015-01-28 Thread Jeff Cornejo
We have used LogicMonitor for a few years to monitor hundreds of network devices with no reliability issues, at all. The agents have proven to be lightweight and rather unobtrusive. I can’t recall a time where we have ever had to intervene during regular operations or one of their upgrades. We