Speaking of Kurt and being good for something, didn't young Xenophon turn
one recently?  If so, good job kilt-man.

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Don Ely - sc thinks I am a good man... <
don....@gmail.com> wrote:

> Kurt is good for something every now and then... What that is... TBD
>
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
> ------------------------------
> *From: * Jeff Steward <jstew...@gmail.com>
> *Date: *Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:39:33 -0400
> *To: *NT System Admin Issues<ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>
> *ReplyTo: * "NT System Admin Issues" <
> ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>
> *Subject: *Re: OpenSource Network/Systems Monitoring
>
> That is a sweet overview, nice find.
>
> -Jeff
>
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Kurt Buff <kurt.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Here are a few compared:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_network_monitoring_systems
>>
>> This one isn't included, it seems
>> http://jffnms.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 06:24, Andrew S. Baker <asbz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I know a lot of you use Nagios for your oss monitoring needs, but I'd
>> love
>> > to hear from people who have tested multiple products:
>> > I'm looking to upgrade the monitoring at %WORK% from a combination of
>> Old
>> > SiteScope and some Zenoss, to one of the following:
>> >
>> > OpenNMS -- http://www.opennms.org/
>> > Zabbix -- http://www.zabbix.com/
>> > Hyperic --
>> http://www.hyperic.com/products/open-source-systems-monitoring
>> >
>> > I don't want separate consoles for Servers and Network devices, as we do
>> > today.  And I'm not so concerned about commercial support, although it
>> would
>> > be a plus to deploy an option that has both community support and
>> commercial
>> > support options.
>> > I've used Nagios in the past, but I prefer to deploy and manage
>> something
>> > that is less finicky to initially configure -- especially since I won't
>> be
>> > managing it directly.
>> > I don't care what platform it runs on.  I'll likely run it in a VM,
>> unless
>> > performance is horrid.   Here are some relevant stats:
>> >
>> > ~250 Windows and Linux servers (85% / 15%)
>> >
>> > -- 20% of the environment is virtualized (ESX/ESXi)
>> > -- Windows = 2003 & 2008
>> > -- Linux = Ubuntu
>> >
>> > ~50 Network Devices (90% Cisco)
>> > Currently, devices to be monitored are in 4 locations, including the
>> NOC,
>> > with 2 more to come online by year's end
>> > Monitoring server can run on Linux or Windows -- no preference
>> > Need agents (if supported) for Windows, Linux, and one Mac
>> >
>> > Oh, and on a side note, I'm likely going to run whatever I pick for
>> %WORK%
>> > on my home network as well.
>> > Thoughts, comments, etc?
>> >
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