[TriLUG] OpenNMS and mapping

Shane O'Donnell shaneo at nc.rr.com
Wed Nov 17 11:43:55 EST 2004


Both NetSaint/Nagios and OpenNMS' "aftermarket" mapping bolt-on are, to
reiterate the sentiment of the all-knowing Jon Carnes, kludgey at best.

Depending on what you are trying to do and what level you are trying to map
-- yet another reason why maps are a bad idea in the first place, but I
digress -- checkout NetDisco (http://www.netdisco.org/)  They have a running
demo on their site and a screenshot available of UCSC's network, which
scales beyond the usefulness of maps -- yet another reason why maps are a
bad idea in the first place, but I digress...

Network management is about information collection (active and passive) and
display for someone who requires that information to do their job.  Maps are
for managers.  Unfortunately, managers also have purchasing budgets, so
tools that provide maps get bought and sit on the shelf while the people
that need the tools use OpenNMS, Nagios, MRTG, and the like to get their
work done.

Don't get me started...

Shane O. 

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf
Of Jon Carnes
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 11:13 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OpenNMS and mapping

On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 11:02, gregbrown at mindspring.com wrote:
> Does OpenNMS graphically map out networks it manages?  If OpenNMS does not
does anyone know of a OSS tool that would create graphical maps of a network
via autodiscovery?
> 
> Greg
> 
I run an older version of OpenNMS and it doesn't automap. Jaimie Livingston
demoed the latest version of NetSaint (not called that anymore) and it *did*
automap the network. Automap was cool, but a bit kludgey looking.

Jon Carnes

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