[Opensource] Network monitoring software for schools

[Donna Benjamin]

Roland - Peter uses Nagios and Cacti.

http://www.nagios.org 
http://www.cacti.net/

cheers
Donna


On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 12:39 +1000, Roland Gesthuizen wrote:
> 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
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