On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 08:49:12AM -0500, Colton Conor wrote: > We are looking for a new network monitoring system. Since there are so many > operators on this list, I would like to know which NMS do you use and why? > Is there one that you really like, and others that you hate? > > For free options (opensouce), LibreNMS and NetXMS come highly recommended > by many wireless ISPs on low budgets. However, I am not sure the commercial > options available nor their price points.
Part 2 (see Part 1 for my epistles on Autostatus & Nagios). To complement Autostatus and Nagios and to replace our ancient Cricket SNMP graphing/trending solution, several years ago we had adopted Statseeker. We've now replaced that with AKiPS, which I highly recommend. It does your basic 1 minute SNMP graphing, but it also collects SNMP Traps & Syslog feeds and can alert on custom matches & events as well as host down via ping. Its main feature is its comprehensive vendor MIB support--it supports almost every vendor's device we use out of the box with no special configuration. They are constantly adding support for new vendors/devices and they are pretty responsive to adding new ones. AKiPS' weakness is in alerting--it makes no attempt at depenencies or event correlation, so you can get flooded with events.
