Nagios vs OpenNMS

[Michael Loftis]

Nah if I was speaking of HPOV I have much 'fonder' terminology for that 
particular piece of code ;)  I was probably rather harsh in my wording. 
But OpenNMS and Nagios have somewhat different ends, OpenNMS means to be 
like HPOV, a management (and secondarily monitoring) platform.  Nagios is a 
monitoring and alerting platform.

--On Tuesday, November 19, 2002 9:37 AM -0700 Garry Cook 
<GWCook at mactec.com> 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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