Question about Nagios Features
Mike Lindsey
mike-nagios at 5dninja.net
Fri Oct 28 05:30:19 CEST 2011
Short answer: Yes.
Medium answer: The free version can provide all of this, but it takes
some work to get what you want. The paid version will give you a lot
more of this right out of the door.
Long answer: Go to nagios.org, read the docs, play with the demo,
download the software. Install it somewhere, play with it for a day.
Then go hit Nagios Exchange and download some addons that fix whatever
you think doesn't work quite the way you want. It sounds like you're
going to be monitoring a complex environment. That means that your
monitoring environment is going to be complex as well - at my work we
monitor over a hundred discrete host profiles on a vast (though still
incredibly small in comparison to some other installations) with some
shared monitoring, but a lot of unique custom monitoring that performs
deep application health checks on custom apps.
You get what you put out. In a large environment you can put out half a
million dollars a year in licensing and support, and potentially
millions in professional services dollars, getting something that you
might not understand - tying you and your business to an external org
through a hefty financial leash. Alternately, you can download some
free software (or pay an entirely reasonable sum for a better version
and professional support) and put some effort into learning the tool,
resulting in a monitoring environment that does everything you want it
to, that you understand in and out, and hopefully the adoration of
management -and- your operations teams.
On 10/26/11 7:39 PM, Gian Karlo wrote:
> Sorry it should be Nagios not OpenNMS. Anyway I would like to ask it
> again if it is possible in Nagios. Thanks a lot.
>
> 1. Topology Based Navigation - Be able to navigate devices/elements as
> based on the topology map created
> 2. Automatic Device Discovery - Be able to discover devices for
> monitoring (requires enabling of SNMP)
> 3. Detailed Historical Reports - Be able to view historical reports
> on devices and elements
> 4. Fault Management and Network Availability Tools - Be able to
> display alerts, provide audible alarms, suppress alarms, create alarms
> as based on complex status and devices/element availability
> 5. Network Performance Monitor - Be able to display information about
> network devices/element health, utilization and status
> 6. Syslog Viewer - Be able to accept and display system logs from
> devices/elements
> 7. SNMP Compatibility - Be able to verify compatibility with different
> SNMP versions
> 8. CPU, Memory & Disk Space Monitoring - Be able to display
> device/element information such as CPU, Memory and Disk Space Utilization
> 9. Advance Reporting Engine - Be able to create custom reports as
> based on required information
> 10. Advance Alerting - Be able to create advance alerts as based on
> complex combination of inputs and send these alerts via email or thru
> audible alarms
> 11. Incident Alerting - Be able to send an alert based on different
> incidents experienced by the device/element
> 12. Network Map Making - Be able to create a map of the
> devices/elements monitored
> 13. Custom Property Editor - Be able to create a custom property to
> interface, node or volume
> 14. Custom HTML Resources - Be able to add resources to your HTML such
> as link or text
> 15. Custom MIB Support - Be able to view other statistics as based
> on customized MIB pollers
> 16. Role-based Access Control - Be able to create different users with
> different access to NPM resources
> 17. Customizable and Flexible Web Console - Be able to customize web
> console as based on customer requirement
> 18. Customizable Web Views - Be able to customize web views as based
> on customer requirement
> 19. Enterprise Scalability -Be able to provide scalability options to
> sustain network growth
> 20. Open Architecture - Be able to integrate with Open Architecture
> database SQL
> 21. Unified Monitoring Console - Be able to unify application
> performance information with other NPM information on the console
> 22. Advance Server Monitoring - Be able to monitor Windows, Unix and
> Linux servers key performance statistics
> 23. Services and Port Monitoring - Be able to monitor applications
> running on servers as based on services and ports used
> 24. User Experience Monitoring - Be able to provide user experience
> information on web-based applications
> 25. Application Templates - Be able to provide application monitoring
> information as based on included application templates
> 26. Out-of-the-box Reporting - Be able to display reports using out of
> the box reporting templates
> 27. Advance Application Alerting - Be able to create alerts on complex
> combinations of events
> 28. Top-to-bottom Analysis - Be able to provide analysis on traffic
> flow as based on NetFlow, SFlow and/or JFlow
> 29. Netflow, SFlow, JFlow Support - Be able to support
> devices/elements running IP Flows and display statistics as based on
> information
> 30. Netflow Reporting - Be able to provide Flow reports
> 31. Application Traffic Information - Be able to provide statistics as
> based on application traffic information
> 32. Demographics - Be able to provide information on top users and top
> applications
> 33. VoIP QoS Measurement - Be able to provide statistics as based on
> VoIP QoS measured values
> 34. Alerts, Grahps and Reporting - Be able to provide alerts, graphs
> and reports as based on statistics gathered
> 35. VoIP Infrastructure Monitoring - Be able to monitor VoIP network
> infrastructure and provide information on network health for support
> of VoIP service
>
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Mike Lindsey
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