[TriLUG] demoing F/OSSinnovation(s)

[Brandon Newport]

Nagios is a great product.  I have it installed at several client locations.
I also have a small bank that preferred OpenNMS instead, so we went with that.
 Both are very good tools.  Nagios seems to have more functionality than
OpenNMS.  Both have a pretty good support system (forum/mailing list).

Personally I recommend Nagios.  I have not done anything with BB or BS so I
can not do a comparison.  I used to use DEMARC until they went commercial they
were pretty good and tied into snort too.

There is another tool out there right now that does
logs/monitoring/security/etc, but I cannot remember the name at the moment.
It looked pretty sweet.  If I find it I will post it.


-brandon

craig at cookitservices.com wrote:
>
> Granted, BB does have some serious limitations.  Poor performance is a huge one.  Out of
> the box it is very limited, but with available mods, nearly anything is possible.  It
> does not scale out of the box (that's what I am for ;-).  It can be done with BBgen and
> other mods (I maintained a perl script for raw performance, but BBgen has since
> overtaken the functionality I had).  Lack of data logging to a SQL database is painful
> as well.
>
> To be fair I have heard some very positive things about Nagios.  Not sure if this is
> true, but I heard BB agents report happily to the Nagios server.  If that is true, then
> the resources of deadcat.net would be available for Nagios as well.
>
> Does Nagios have a trending module similar to LARRD?  I saw event trending, but not data
> eg. CPU load, disk graphs, memory usage, etc.
>
> Is Nagios capable to send and receive SNMP?
>
> BB has a very strong support group/mailing list.  I can't comment on Nagios since I have
> never used it before.  Think I have something to play with the next few weeks ;-)
>
> For completeness, I have heard positive things about Big Sister, but have not used that
> either.
>
> Anyway, offer to present still stands.  BB at the moment, or the option of Nagios in the
> future.
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