Nagios vs OpenNMS

[Michael Loftis]

My understanding of OpenNMS is it's a piece of nearly worthless bloatware 
that'll eat a 1Ghz machine with a gig or more of RAM just to monitor a 
fairly small number of hosts.  Atleast that the reports I keep getting from 
people trying to use it...

--On Friday, November 15, 2002 1:21 PM -0800 Naman Latif 
<naman.latif at inamed.com> wrote:

>
> Hi,
> I am setting up a network management solution for my organization. I want
> to be able to Monitor the Network Devices with Paging,Email capabilities
> if any device goes down.
>
> At the same time , I want the Mangement application to be able to
> understand\translate SNMP traps using MIBs.
>
> Can Nagios understand SNMP Traps and correlate those with MIBs ?
> Would I have to use OpenNMS for this purpose ?
> Would I loose some valuable functionality if I go for OpenNMS and don't
> install Nagios ?  Would Nagios provide some additional useful features
> that OpenNMS doesn't have ?
>
> Regards \\ Naman




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