volatile state stalking - snmp traps service notifications
Noah Leaman
noah at mac.com
Fri Mar 12 12:47:10 CET 2004
yes... I am piloting nagios as a possible replacement of our already
deployed openview installation. I am confident that with enough
ingenuity nagios might just work... I am more confident on the server
side than the network side though.
I am currently soaking up the suggestions and should be making a
decision soon. Thanks for the help everyone.
--
Noah
On Friday, March 12, 2004, at 03:37 AM, Jim Mozley wrote:
> Noah Leaman wrote:
>
>> I have over 70,000 interfaces/ports (just the up/up ones) for which I
>> could receive linkDown and linkUp traps for. And this is just a
>> sampling of hosts on our network to pilot nagios to see if it can do
>> what we want. Doesn't it seem a little crazy to have to deal with
>> that many services even if they are passive? And this is just
>> linkDown and linkUp. What about all other possible traps that could
>> be received?
>
> There are been some good suggestions as to possible solutions to the
> problem using Nagios from others. The "but" is that in the end its
> "horses for courses" and perhaps Nagios is not suitable for a large
> scale network management scenario like this.
>
> I'd guess 70,000 ports in use represents a lot of devices and I'd
> expect a portion of the network budget to be devoted to management
> tools of the OpenView type.
>
> One possible different open source tool you may want to have a look at
> is OpenNMS. I believe this is more scalable for the scenario you
> describe and could be a better fit. Please don't take this as lack of
> faith in Nagios, I think its great and we looked at using it in
> conjunction with OpenView or OpenNMS. In the end the functionality we
> wanted had to be built, so using plugins and passive checks worked
> well for us.
>
> Jim Mozley
>
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