- Nagios
- Pros:
- Easy setup
- Easy to reload changes
- Template inheritance for easy configuration
- Cons:
- Configuration by text editor
- Primarily for fault detection, limited performance tracking
- Pros:
- OpenNMS
- Pros:
- Integrated fault detection and performance measurement
- Reasonable setup time
- Sophisticated discovery tool
- Built-in physical asset/inventory management
- Many services auto-discovered and monitored without manual intervention
- Cons:
- Slightly un-intuitive navigation - hard to get right at data reports
- Configuration via editing of semi-documented XML files
- Most changes require full system restart - no reload function
- Loads service checks for all interfaces, requiring some clean-up and reorganization
- Monitored services limited to basic Layer 3/4 checks - No real L7 checks
- Pros:
- Zabbix
- Pros:
- Integrated FD and PM
- Web-based configuration of most parameters
- Templates used for rapid setup
- Cons:
- Templates used only on initial setup of host item - not true inheritance
- Stores SNMP community name with *each* monitored service item
- Development tightly controlled by author, allowing for minimal community development
- Pros:
- jffnms
- Pros:
- Integrated monitoring
- Total package written in PHP
- Web-based configuration, stored in INI-file
- Uses syslog-ng or msyslog to pipe log data into DB for monitoring by NMS
- Cons:
- Total package written in PHP (!)
- Unpretty and haphazard interface, but functional
- Pros:
Network Tool Comparison
Submitted by greg on Wed, 01/02/2008 - 03:00
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