Nagios vs OpenNMS

[Scott A McCamish]

This really didn't have to be such a big topic...

The message used the word "bloatware".  OpenView has called
OpenBloat by many people.

Those of you that are saying OpenNMS is "bloated" compared
to NetSaint may well be correct, but I imagine the sizes
pale in comparison to OV...

Nevermind...

--Scott

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Tom DE BLENDE wrote:

>I too don't understand why you are assuming he means OpenView when he
>says OpenNMS... As far as my experiences with OpenNMS are concerned:
>I've tried it once on the same test PC as I tried NetSaint 0.0.6 on at
>the time. Whereas NetSaint ran smoothly on that Pentium 166 with 80
>megs of RAM; smoke came out of the case, memory was being catapulted
>out of the slots and the motherboard simply melted when running
>OpenNMS. If you want to buy excessive amounts of hardware, then
>OpenNMS is your friend.
>
>Garry Cook wrote:
>>
>> I would believe that he is speaking of OpenNMS. This description seems to mirror the experience that I had after installing the product on a test server. Granted, this was before the v.1.0 release a few months ago, although I doubt that much has been done since to free up resources. The only thing that I might disagree with is the 'nearly worthless' tag. If you're in possession of a box big and beefy enough to run OpenNMS, I think it would serve as a useful tool.
>>
>> Garry W. Cook, CCNA
>> Network Infrastructure Manager
>> MACTEC, Inc. - http://www.mactec.com/
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>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Scott A McCamish [mailto:mccamish at usna.edu]
>> > Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 9:06 AM
>> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>> > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios vs OpenNMS
>> >
>> >
>> > I believe you are referring to OpenView, an HP product, not
>> > the relatively new open-source OpenNMS... <http://www.opennms.org>
>> >
>> > --Scott
>> >
>> > On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Michael Loftis wrote:
>> >
>> > >My understanding of OpenNMS is it's a piece of nearly
>> > worthless bloatware
>> > >that'll eat a 1Ghz machine with a gig or more of RAM just to
>> > monitor a
>> > >fairly small number of hosts.  Atleast that the reports I
>> > keep getting from
>> > >people trying to use it...
>> > >
>> > >--On Friday, November 15, 2002 1:21 PM -0800 Naman Latif
>> > ><naman.latif at inamed.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > >>
>> > >> Hi,
>> > >> I am setting up a network management solution for my
>> > organization. I want
>> > >> to be able to Monitor the Network Devices with
>> > Paging,Email capabilities
>> > >> if any device goes down.
>> > >>
>> > >> At the same time , I want the Mangement application to be able to
>> > >> understand\translate SNMP traps using MIBs.
>> > >>
>> > >> Can Nagios understand SNMP Traps and correlate those with MIBs ?
>> > >> Would I have to use OpenNMS for this purpose ?
>> > >> Would I loose some valuable functionality if I go for
>> > OpenNMS and don't
>> > >> install Nagios ?  Would Nagios provide some additional
>> > useful features
>> > >> that OpenNMS doesn't have ?
>> > >>
>> > >> Regards \\ Naman
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
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