[Opensource] Network monitoring software for schools

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Thanks Kim, I will look up Groundwork
http://www.groundworkopensource.com/community/

Thanks Donna, both Nagios and Cacti also came recommended from another
source :-)

My only concern with these was the setup time to config, tweak and update. I
guess they cannot be too hard, my tech Arran just finished building the VM
server for each in a half hour. :-)

Regards Roland

2009/6/29 Donna Benjamin <donna at cc.com.au>

> 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
> >
> > "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
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> > --Margaret Mead
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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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