I feel the same way. Librenms was easy, they offer it as an OVA, I had to convert it for ESX, but it was a cinch. I wont use applications that require me to be a webdude and database admin to operate it. believe me, if its simple enough for me to put in production, its worth it
On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 11:09 AM David Coudron <david.coud...@advantenon.com> wrote: > We like the idea of distributed pollers and hosting through SaaS. We > know we aren’t experts at building, backing up and managing servers and > databases and would rather not have that responsibility. We can keep the > poller appliances close to the monitored devices, but don’t need the > aggregationreporting tool there. Once we own the hosting, we now own > security of it, upgrades, backups, etc. Not the end of the world, but > we’d rather spend our time building towers than running servers. However, > given the importance of this function, this would be the one service we’d > want to invest more time in rather than less if we have to. > > > > Thanks, > > > > David Coudron > > > > *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of * Mike Hammett > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 16, 2019 10:55 AM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Network Monitoring and Notification App > > > > Challenge is that you'll have to host it? Having precise monitoring of > your network is only possible on your network. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > > > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > ------------------------------ > > *From: *"David Coudron" <david.coud...@advantenon.com> > *To: *"AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com> > *Sent: *Wednesday, January 16, 2019 10:15:43 AM > *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Network Monitoring and Notification App > > We are just in the process of doing the same thing. We had previously > used Powercode for this, but had moved to Sonar hoping to improve some of > these items. Unfortunately, we are finding a number of drawbacks with > Sonar and need to augment Sonar with other items. We have stood up > LibreNMS and believe this will give us the functionality we are looking > for. Specifically, we think we can get the bandwidth usage numbers polled > and graphed properly as well as control some of the annoying notification > issues we have in Sonar. If you have some interest in talking more to see > if the issues we faced are similar to what you are looking at, we can > connect offlist. > > > > The challenge with LibreNMS is that you’ll have to host it. However, we > are finding it to be pretty stable and customizable. That is where we > are seeing challenges with Sonar. Sonar would also likely require you to > move to their billing platform and so on. It does a pretty good job of > that. > > > > Thanks, > > > > David Coudron > > > > > > *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Sam Lambie > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 16, 2019 10:05 AM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > *Subject:* [AFMUG] Network Monitoring and Notification App > > > > Hey all, > > > > We are looking into building/installing a better network toolset at our > NOC so we can get a better handle on where our bottlenecks are. Currently, > we use a hodgepodge of Cacti, Ping, and Smokeping to keep an eye on our > network. It's ok, but having to look at multiple places to get an idea of > what is happening is cumbersome at best. > > What do you guys use to bring your networks health into one source/control > panel/dashboard? > > > > I am looking for: > > bandwidth usage > > ping times > > frame utilization > > customer counts > > switch port logging > > > > basically a really nice SNMP and more package that is robust. > > > > Thanks! > > Sam > > > > -- > > -- > *Sam Lambie* > Taosnet Wireless Tech. > 575-758-7598 Office > www.Taosnet.com <http://www.newmex.com> > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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