Mat Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 I need to set up an SNMP monitoring system at work. Ideally using a free and open source solution. It'd likely run in a VM but hardware could be provided for it if necessary. It should offer reporting capability but the important part is a wallboard style display, so I can have it showing on a large plasma screen in the IT office and if the board is green, everything is good, but a red flashing light means a server has just exploded - that sort of thing. I've been googling but I'm not finding anything I like so far, and recomendations? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 http://www.cacti.net/? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astromodder Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 We use Nagios http://www.nagios.org/ I don't think it uses SNMP right out of the box however there are SNMP plugins for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 I need to set up an SNMP monitoring system at work. Ideally using a free and open source solution. It'd likely run in a VM but hardware could be provided for it if necessary. It should offer reporting capability but the important part is a wallboard style display, so I can have it showing on a large plasma screen in the IT office and if the board is green, everything is good, but a red flashing light means a server has just exploded - that sort of thing. I've been googling but I'm not finding anything I like so far, and recomendations? http://spiceworks.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hinzinho Posted June 27, 2009 Share Posted June 27, 2009 http://spiceworks.com/ Spiceworks looks really nice, but the ads is a turn off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timmo Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 have you looked at zenoss (http://www.zenoss.com/) it was on a hak5 ep in i think season 3 but it looks pretty kool and has a vm image or an iso for an install Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wetelectric Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 Yeah, basically it's a toss up between zenoss and nagios. Zenoss is good because it has all the reports (kpi and such) built in. Nagios is as powerful but you have to create the more hardcore reports yourself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reflux Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 I really really would recommend spiceworks. The interface is very nice and I had a much easier time setting it up compared to Zenoss. If you really don't want ads then you can pay $20 a month ($220 a year) to get rid of em (the ads aren't very intrusive though), since its for work I'm sure you can find $220 somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davil Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 can any of these be used on remote sites through a firewall? I have teamviewer setup with multiple people and I can remote control their systems, transfer files etc. (even through work firewall here!!) but I'd love to be able to monitor remote machines. Even up/down test would be a great start. maybe teamviewer VPN but I don't want to have too complicated a network setup if I don't need one. I'm thinking of running a PHP/MySQL based solution with my hosting. or maybe just something that e-mails me when one of their systems goes down. but that means writing my own app. and there's probably something out there than can do all this for me ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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