On Friday 17 October 2008 15:42:08 McDonald, Dan wrote:
On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 15:05 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
On Thursday 16 October 2008 15:26:55 Shawn Heisey wrote:
Geoff Steer wrote:
Every time I have to add a new monitor or get asked to graph something, I keep thinking 'This would be so much easier with hobbit!'
At my job, we're using two primary tools for network monitoring - Hobbit and OpenNMS. Hobbit is primarily for system monitoring, and OpenNMS for network monitoring.
You mean for SNMP polling?
<plug>Have you tried devmon</plug>
I would, if it supported snmp V3...
It's on the to-do list. If you can test, I will try and implement soon. AFAIK, SNMP_Session supports snmpv3, so it should mostly be a configuration issue.
(You could also file a bug on the sourceforge tracker, so I don't forget).
(First 2 weeks are looking most promising for some real devmon development).
If I put enough work into OpenNMS, it would be able to replace Hobbit and leave it in the dust, but I don't have any reason to spend the time.
What features specifically would you use from OpenNMS (and aren't available with Hobbit+devmon?).
The main thing hobbit is missing is the mapping front-end. Yes, I know about bbmap (I wrote the integration of that for hobbit). And I've thought about porting weathermap to hobbit,
I did that last week. See the devmon mailing list.
/me sanitizes an example ...
http://staff.telkomsa.net/~bgmilne/weathermap.html
(the overlib popup graphs do work, but I'm not going to put static copies and edit the html to fix all the links right now).
Since it uses a lot of the information devmon has at it's disposal, it's a lot less editing work than the Cacti one (there is no graphical editor yet, but it's almost less work to put the interface names in the config file). I will try and automate it even further soon.
Source tarball at: http://staff.telkomsa.net/~bgmilne/devmon- weathermap-1.1.2.tar.gz
(that one didn't have support for VIA tags and ICONS, I will publish a new one once I have the transparency vs not and label/background vs icon issues resolved)
but when you are network centric, rather than client centric, you really need a connectivity map...
Well, I've got what cacti could do for us (so we don't need it any more), and I was considering doing something with graphviz and the NET, route_NET, and route tags ...
Regards, Buchan