They all have their strengths and weakness.... If you are in a mood to evaluate other packages... take a look at these two: zenoss observium
Regards. Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom 7266 SW 48 Street Miami, FL 33155 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Justin Wilson" <[email protected]> > To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2014 8:54:49 AM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Network Monitoring Program > 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 < [email protected] > > http://www.mtin.net > Managed Services – xISP Solutions – Data Centers > http://www.thebrotherswisp.com > Podcast about xISP topics > From: Brian Wilson < [email protected] > > Reply-To: WISPA General List < [email protected] > > Date: Friday, August 15, 2014 at 3:11 PM > To: WISPA General List < [email protected] > > 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 > [email protected] http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
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