volatile state stalking - snmp traps service notifications

Noah Leaman noah at mac.com
Fri Mar 12 12:47:10 CET 2004


yes... I am piloting nagios as a possible replacement of our already 
deployed openview installation. I am confident that with enough 
ingenuity nagios might just work... I am more confident on the server 
side than the network side though.

I am currently soaking up the suggestions and should be making a 
decision soon. Thanks for the help everyone.

-- 
Noah

On Friday, March 12, 2004, at 03:37  AM, Jim Mozley wrote:

> Noah Leaman wrote:
>
>> I have over 70,000 interfaces/ports (just the up/up ones) for which I 
>> could receive linkDown and linkUp traps for. And this is just a 
>> sampling of hosts on our network to pilot nagios to see if it can do 
>> what we want. Doesn't it seem a little crazy to have to deal with 
>> that many services even if they are passive? And this is just 
>> linkDown and linkUp. What about all other possible traps that could 
>> be received?
>
> There are been some good suggestions as to possible solutions to the 
> problem using Nagios from others. The "but" is that in the end its 
> "horses for courses" and perhaps Nagios is not suitable for a large 
> scale network management scenario like this.
>
> I'd guess 70,000 ports in use represents a lot of devices and I'd 
> expect a portion of the network budget to be devoted to management 
> tools of the OpenView type.
>
> One possible different open source tool you may want to have a look at 
> is OpenNMS. I believe this is more scalable for the scenario you 
> describe and could be a better fit. Please don't take this as lack of 
> faith in Nagios, I think its great and we looked at using it in 
> conjunction with OpenView or OpenNMS. In the end the functionality we 
> wanted had to be built, so using plugins and passive checks worked 
> well for us.
>
> Jim Mozley
>



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