[ILUG] Nagios & OpenNMS

[Esdras Neto]

Hi Ryan,

For sure it's not a easy decision, since they have "almost" the same
features, you can see in the web site bellow a list that could help you
decide.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_network_monitoring_systems

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_network_monitoring_systems>I
have just deployed zabbix, it's a pretty good tool that has a very active
community. But one thing I tell you, my favorite tool is nagios... simple to
configure and just works.

Good look in your new job :)

Regards,
Esdras

2011/2/26 Ryan Frederick <ryanrfrederick at gmail.com>

> Okay, so I might be bringing up a tired and much debated question here...
>
> I'm going to be heading down to Stillwater, Oklahoma in a week's time to
> start a sysadmin job in the telecommunications department at Oklahoma
> State University.  One of the things they expressed to me that they
> would like is a monitoring system for their servers and networking
> equipment (they're currently using custom ping scripts).  During my
> interview I described my experience with Nagios since I've used it
> extensively on the server side.  But with my new job mostly involving
> networking equipment I'm pondering OpenNMS a bit.
>
> With my very limited experience with OpenNMS (none essentially) I'm
> wondering what would be best to implement in a more network-oriented
> side of a server and network equipment environment.  I'm thinking I
> could achieve the same results with OpenNMS by using Nagios with the
> check_snmp plugin, and I'd like to monitor some more specific things on
> the servers that the telecommunications department has (such as disk
> space, status of certain processes, etc), things I know Nagios can do.
> Could OpenNMS do the same thing?  Better perhaps?  How difficult is it
> to transition from configuring Nagios to configuring OpenNMS?
>
> Hopefully I'm not opening up a big flame war on this...
>
> Ryan
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