hooleylist
Nov 15, 2007Cirrostratus
Network Management System suggestions?
Hi,
Like a related post (Click here), this isn't exactly on topic for this forum, but... I'm wondering if anyone can give their thoughts on an NMS.
I'm trying to set up a new network management system for our small network to check the state of a few BIG-IP's, a dozen or two production servers, some switches and firewalls and a gaggle of test gear. In total there are probably 50 to 100 hosts I'd like to monitor. I don't need much beyond CPU, disk utilization (and some service monitoring for databases, etc on the servers).
I'm looking for something in the opensource to cheap range that doesn't take eons to set up and configure. If it's not on Windows, I become the sole administrator. So I'm leaning towards something that runs on Windows.
I installed Hyperic and it looked very promising until I came to setting up alerts. You have to set an alert per service per host all through the GUI. So that's out the window.
I've done some searching and found that the popular OSS ones are OpenNMS, Nagios, Zabbix and ZenOSS. None of these run on Windows. OpenNMS seems like overkill. Nagios sounds like it requires a lot of manual configuration.
So does anyone have feedback on these for *nix, or other non-free (but cheap) solutions that run on Windows?
Thanks,
Aaron