Nagios vs OpenNMS

[Arjan de Graaff]

The biggest advantage of Nagios over Openview is

1: The price (Nagios is free)
2: Implementation time (openview has an impl. time of 1 year+ an Nagios 3
monts+) (Depending on the number of hosts)

However it depends on how many hosts you want to monitor, Openview (or
Tivoly) is more suitable for Large networks (10.000 or more host). It also
depends on wat you want to monitor, if you for example want make your own
SAP plugins... this is not possible with Vanatagepoint or Tivoly.

But the 2 points (point 1 mostly) where the once we made the desision on.

(Our network has 89 hosts and 651 services to check)

Arjan

-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Scott A
McCamish
Sent: dinsdag 19 november 2002 17:06
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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