LinuxQuestions.org - Network Monitoring Application of the Year

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Originally Posted by gotfw (Post 5105065)

Holy Moly!! All these 1 post wonders voting for Nagios. Is Nagios team _that_ desperate??!

+1 on OpenNMS rocking it for the large enterprise.

More recently, however, I'm liking Zabbix.

Have to also admit that there are a few newcommers to this poll that I'm not familiar with that I'm going to have to at least take a peek at before voting because we're talking "... of the year" here, wh/should transcend mere popularity contest.

P.S.; It would be cool if some of the fanboys would elaborate as to WHY their particular fave is the superior to the rest of the pack.

I'll clarify my pick, Zabbix with these:
the "Copy to" feature to copy elements to multiple hosts in the same step.
the "Mass Update" of elements.
the "Full Clone" option.
The Filters.
Saves me LOTS of time, and doesn't make me want to rip my eyes out, or tear the wings off flies.

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Originally Posted by Habitual (Post 5107048)

Thanks. I was guitly myself for not elaborating more on OpenNMS, but have previously done so in prior years. I assume such is probably the same case for others and why many of these posts are so terse :)

I have never actually deployed Nagios. Looked at it in earlier days of development because it was the cool "in thing" at the time but soon realized deployment and management would be a helluva headache. Things reportedly have improved a lot in that area over the years but my recollection of the mess it was biases me from really looking at it again. I also came to favor OpenNMS instead.

Had previously also ruled out Zabbix years back but more recently taking a peek at it again and wondering just what I was thinking????.....

Else otherwise mon for smaller, lesser needs.

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Originally Posted by jeremy (Post 5081929)

What is your network monitoring application of choice?

--jeremy

Hello

I've been using Nagios, Pandora and Wireshark and for me the best one is Pandora. It is a good monitoring software witch permits you monitor networks, servers and routers. For more information visit the pandora webpage: (pandorafms.com)

Regards
Vasil Levski