The ability to push configs out from a central location is really a nice feature of Nagios/Cacti/MRTG. I also use Big Brother to monitor customer connections, and it is nice to have something that automatically pushes the configurations out whenever we make a change in the billing system - keeps everything in the same database.
Matt Larsen vistabeam.com Jeremy Davis wrote: >> I'm having a hard time understanding why yawl just wouldn't use the >> Dude? It's FREE, it emails me in the event of an anomaly, sends text >> msgs, monitors/graphs number of hotspot users, bandwidth, outages, >> traffic on my links, uptime, or just about anything else you want to >> look at, log, notify you of, login to, upgrade, or have your wife go >> fix;-) It even has a nice pretty web interface for your level 1 support >> crew (daughter or son) to look at. >> > > So does nagios and cacti. They are also open source so you can write any > plug-in you need including non-snmp device checks. Cacti has tons of > premade templates that can be found all over the net. I use nagios to check > to see if linux boxes are up to date and a variety of other non-typical, non > snmp monitoring situations. I also have the ability to provision the > information to the NMS systems from my billing system so I can setup all of > my information in one location and "push" it out to all of the other > systems. > > Sincerely, > > Jeremy Davis > Maximum Technologies, LLC > Office 318.303.4725 > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
