[K12OSN] Re: build your own thin client

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 20:03 +0100, Nils Breunese wrote:
> > I think that's going to be opennms although
> > it is more difficult than some of the others to install since it
> > needs the Sun jdk and tomcat as the web server installed first.
> > http://www.opennms.org.
> 
> We're using ZABBIX and I love it. No where near as much work as  
> setting up Nagios and it does all you're listing here: SNMP, custom  
> probes, historical graphs, notifications. I recommend everyone to  
> check it out (http://www.zabbix.com/). According to their website it  
> scales pretty well too, they have tested ZABBIX with 5000 monitored  
> devices and services.

One thing zabbix doesn't appear to do (yet) is auto-discovery.  You
can give opennms a set of network ranges and it will auto-probe them
for a configurable set of services and start monitoring what it
finds.  Likewise you can give snmp options for ranges and it will
start collecting a default set of information from the hosts that
respond - and it knows to collapse multiple interfaces found with
snmp into a single 'node'. It defaults to a summarized view that is
nice for a large set of machines.  Both products seem to have active
development so it's hard to tell which will end up with more features.

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  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com