snmp

hi all, I have a question, I am looking for open source software to monitor snmp, well from what I have seen most of them are expensive, I found one opennms which look ok, but do you know anyone that could built a graphic of the network similar to hp openview?

Thanks

Chityphong

I've been in a similar situation and after looking around for a long time, I found nagios which is an excellent tool to monitor any IP device that supports snmp. You can set alarms, alerts and notifications via email, sms e.t.c and much more.

Check this open-source product at www.nagios.org

Cheers,

As I have been finding, MRTG is a pretty awesome tool for monitoring all my SNMP enabled devices. I had used the ported windows distro but it is very limited in scheduling. The Linux/Unix distro is rock solid and is easy to tweak.

MRTG
people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/

Windows Port
people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/nt-guide.html

FireDaemon (lets you install services on windows, $25/PC)
www.firedaemon.com/HOWTO/MRTG/

Hope these help.

Drew

Thank you a lot guys for your help, chris is right nagios is exactly what I have been looknig for !!! it is amazing !!!, I use also mrtg but as it is mostly a grapher nagios is more complete !!

Again thanks guys