Network Monitoring Trials – Part I
February 5th, 2008
After dinner tonight, I’m going to start setting up my Xen VMs and installing some monitoring software. I’ve decided that Hyperic and OpenNMS will be the first round – mainly because their free versions seem to be the most heavy-weight, and will probably take more installation time. GroundWork Open Source will come sometime later this week.
While the research that I did today has led me to start formulating some opinions on each of the contestants, I’m going to withhold comment until I get all three up and running, and have done some real work with them.
If you are going to try Hyperic and OpenNMS, it may be interesting to try out their integration. Its still first generation, but you’ll see how they’re complimentary. http://www.opennms.org/images/5/56/Hyperic-integration.pdf