For most of our folks we use a combination of the Dude from Mikrotik and Nagios, and usually throw in Cacti. The dude is easy to understand, doubles as network documentation, and is good for the CSR folks to look at a glance. Dude can also replace Cacti if you desire. It just doesn’t create pretty graphs. We mainly use cacti for co-lo and bandwidth customers. It calculates 95th percentile internally. You can also setup cacti to graph all kinds of stuff you don’t necessarily want to monitor, but are helpful to keep track of. For example, wireless signal/ccq/jitter/whatever, BGP routes, temperature, voltage, and other SNMP data.
Nagios is great at knowing the difference between latency and a link actually being down. It has a ton of extra knowledge about stuff you don’t find in the Dude. Nagios has a learning curve for sure, but it’s worth it. If you use the newer versions or even the paid version that learning curve isn’t as steep. Nagios also can do distributed monitoring to split up load or make your monitoring a little more fault tolerant. My monitoring box has a VM with Dude, a VM with Nagios, and a VM with Cacti. The only reason Cacti is separated is because I like to use cacti-ez. It sets everything up and away it goes. Justin -- Justin Wilson <j...@mtin.net> http://www.mtin.net <http://www.mtin.net/blog> Managed Services – xISP Solutions – Data Centers http://www.thebrotherswisp.com Podcast about xISP topics From: Brian Wilson <br...@wildsong.biz> Reply-To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> Date: Friday, August 15, 2014 at 3:11 PM To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Network Monitoring Program I have inherited a very old version of Nagios and we also use The Dude from Mikrotik. That's what we have installed here right now, not a recommendation. ;-) I am very interested to hear what other people are using, too. Brian Wilson CDS Wireless, Santa Rosa CA _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
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