Nagios vs OpenNMS

[Garry Cook]

I would believe that he is speaking of OpenNMS. This description seems to mirror the experience that I had after installing the product on a test server. Granted, this was before the v.1.0 release a few months ago, although I doubt that much has been done since to free up resources. The only thing that I might disagree with is the 'nearly worthless' tag. If you're in possession of a box big and beefy enough to run OpenNMS, I think it would serve as a useful tool.

Garry W. Cook, CCNA
Network Infrastructure Manager
MACTEC, Inc. - http://www.mactec.com/
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott A McCamish [mailto:mccamish at usna.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 9:06 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios vs OpenNMS
> 
> 
> 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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