Re: SNMP Mananger/NMS options

Hi Seann,

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Seann Clark
<[email protected]> wrote:
> All,
>
>    Since this list deals the closest with what I am after, I am asking
> here, not for specific net-snmp support, but more for options that are
> out there. I am after an NMS that works like Spectrum, or HP Openview to
> be able to manage a medium LAN/WAN infrastructure using primarily SNMP.
> I have played with Nagios, Zabbix, BigSister, a little with Hobbit, and
> while they aren't bad, they are overly Dependant on agent software being
> installed, instead of true SNMP primary based management. Agents on my
> local systems aren't bad, but my WAN locations aren't my systems, and I
> only have R/O on them to be able to ensure that services are up and
> direct communication to the owners that there is a problem with service
> connections into, and out of my network segment.

Small correction, many of the packages you listed can work with SNMP
:), I have done extensive SNMP management with Nagios and offer a
number of examples of SNMP plugins in a book I recently wrote for
Syngress (won't plug the book here) .. there are also a large number
of SNMP plugins available for Nagios.

- Max

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