[Opensource] Network monitoring software for schools

[Roland Gesthuizen]

We are looking for some source software that we can use to monitor our
servers, services and network devices at our secondary school.  Basically a
dashboard that tells me what is up and what is down .. and some logging
tools that reports the network health in more detail. It will need to be
easy to use, robust, not too challenging to setup or maintain, not require a
PHD to setup or a specialist team to rebuild if it falls over or upgrade.
Whilst auto discovery would be nice, we can pour in the hostnames, IPs and
services to examine and track. Perhaps what we will end up is a suite of
tools.

To date we were using

   - Big Brother (not really free) http://bb4.org
   - Sarg - *Squid Analysis Report Generator: *
   http://sarg.sourceforge.net/sarg.php

It has been suggested that we explore:

   - Nardios: http://www.nagios.org
   - OpenNMS; http://www.opennms.org

It has also been suggested that we evaluate:

   - http://www.zabbix.com/index.php
   - http://collectd.org/
   - http://munin.projects.linpro.no/

I have managed to track down these reviews

   - OpenNMS -
   http://www.opennms.org/index.php/Comparison_with_other_network_management_systems
   - Comparision -
   http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/open-source-network-management-download-comparison/

Does anybody have any experience, suggestions or recommendations what would
be appropriate for a secondary school?

Regards Roland
-- 
Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
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