Nagios vs OpenNMS

[Scott A McCamish]

I believe you are referring to OpenView, an HP product, not
the relatively new open-source OpenNMS... <http://www.opennms.org>

--Scott

On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Michael Loftis wrote:

>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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