Re: network managment tools

Chris Glanville wrote:
> I'm working on a project to implement a suite of network 
> management/monitoring tools.  Something like OpenView.  I'm trying to do 
> it all with open source software, and I was curious what tools you've 
> used or seen used, and what their pro's and con's are.  Right now I'm 
> looking at things like OpenNMS (www.opennms.org), Nagios 
> (www.nagios.org), and Cacti (www.raxnet.net/products/cacti).
> 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> cg


There's a slew of tools available in Knoppix STD, might be worth 
checking out (if you haven't already). http://www.knoppix-std.org/tools.html
I haven't used them too much though, shortly after I burned the discs I 
put everything in storage and moved out here. Nessus is awesome though.

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