Observium is nice (we use it), but like you said, it's not very flexible at ALL in terms of device support since you can't specify custom data sources like virtually every other monitoring system.
If you are looking for custom device support, better alerting, etc - there are many better options. Josh On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Josh Reynolds via Af <af@afmug.com> wrote: > (sent to wispa/wireless) > > That's good news... to a certain extent. > > Observium is (fairly) excellent at monitoring wired infrastructure. It's > interface also moves us out of the "Dark Ages" of Nagios and others, which > is a plus. > > What Observium is not good at: > it's not very flexible in monitoring > it's not very flexible in alerting > it doesn't support "broken" snmp mibs that work with cacti and a few others > it can't control devices > it can't upgrade devices > it doesn't bring any new features to the table for any specific product > line > it is a very "talkative" and network inefficient protocol - a single > device can easily cause 500 round-trips very 5 minutes, that doesn't scale > well > new device support and feature graphing has to be explicitly coded in > > > josh reynolds :: chief information officer > spitwspots :: www.spitwspots.com > > On 12/08/2014 05:04 AM, Mike Hammett via Af wrote: > > It looks like Observium is expanding a bit. In what direction, I'm not > certain. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > ------------------------------ > *From: *ad...@observium.org > *To: *"Observium Network Observation System" <observ...@observium.org> > <observ...@observium.org> > *Sent: *Monday, December 8, 2014 4:35:44 AM > *Subject: *[Observium] Wireless Support (Aruba, Ruckus, Trapeze, Cisco, > etc) > > Hi All, > > Could those of you who are interested in wireless support email me > off-list? > > I've totally lost track of who has offered to financially sponsor > development and/or provide access to test hardware. > > Please include the following information : > > Contact/Company/Subscriber information > What type of support you'd be willing to provide > What type of hardware you use > What you use the hardware for (WISP, Enterprise, etc) > > Additionally if you already use some other platform with your wireless > kit, perhaps some screenshots and description of how you use the > platform would be useful, as would any suggestions on how a wifi > infrastructure management interface might be structured. > > We're not wireless infrastructure experts, but you guys might be! :) > > Depending upon the level of interest when everyone is accounted for, we > might consider building specific wireless support into Observium. > > Please reply to this mail but change the "to" field to > ad...@observium.org. If you use a different subject, your mail might be > lost forever :) > > Thanks, > adam. > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observ...@observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > >
