On 29.01.2010 12:48, Nils Kolstein wrote: > Open source? Closed source? > > Open Source gives several platforms like Nagios (also does service management > but also element management). OpenNMS is also a good option. > > Closed source: HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli. Comes with a price tag of course. > Remeber that most platforms need to be tweaked and tuned to get the best > results. Also consider having your CMDB up to date and stuff like that. > As we have rolled out OpenNMS at several customer sites (apart from our own network; site sizes range from a couple of dozens of devices up to something like 15000 systems with lots of room for growth) and previously were using Nagios, I very much doubt you'd be able to run Nagios on a network with 50000 systems in it ... unless you start stacking up multiple servers to work in parallel ...
There are OpenNMS-based installations out there with at least 48000 systems, running smoothly with detailed overview over the connected devices ... YMMV of course, but I believe OpenNMS is your best shot here ... License and support cost for OV will cost you more than an arm and a leg for such a large scenario, and Tivoli might not cover your requirements (apart from the cost & performance). Both the latter we have replaced with OpenNMS in two customer installations ... and they are very glad they threw them out :) When we found that Nagios was unable to cope with our (and customer) requirements, we did an internal review of multiple FOSS systems - of those, only few were able to cope with anything larger than 10000 systems, and most lacked important features we had on our must-have-list ... -garry _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
