That's a very nice write up of OpenNMS.I think it should be noted that the examples in the write up show how extensible OpenNMS is, but I would point out that out of the box (RPM or .deb) OpenNMS does most of what the examples demonstrated. The author of this write-up has gone and done a good job of showing how the out of box config can be customized.
I particularly like the conclusion warning about "monitoring everything". We recently re-worked our OpenNMS installation to limit what it monitors significantly. We found, over time, that when the pager goes off at 3am, it should be only for a pretty short list of things. An Network Monitoring System can quickly overwhelm the SysAdmin with email.
-- Ray Frush On Jan 31, 2008, at 11:23 AM, Neil Watson wrote:
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 05:54:34PM -0500, Neil Watson wrote:I'm going to expand this thread a bit. Has anyone kicked the tires ofOpennms?I had a test drive of OpenNMS. I share with you my findings: http://technocrat.watson-wilson.ca/blosxom/computer/onmsreview.html -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator | Uptime 5 days http://watson-wilson.ca