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Open Source Network Monitoring Tools



Despite being tricky to implement, network monitoring tools Nagios and OpenNMS can provide valuable insight into a network's behavior. We've collected a variety of resources to assist you through the challenge of implementation so you can reap the benefits of these tools sooner.
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Open source network monitoring with Nagios
SearchNetworkingChannel.com | 08 Jun 2007
TIP - Network consultants and value-added resellers (VARs) can use the open source network monitoring tool Nagios to stop problems before they reach end users. VARs will learn about the usefulness, the architecture and the...
Affordable network management with OpenNMS
SearchNetworkingChannel.com | 18 Dec 2006
TIP - Network consultants and value-added resellers (VARs) may use OpenNMS to manage tens of thousands of devices from a single server. Open source expert Maria Winslow discusses this free open source enterprise-grade network...
Can you recommend an inexpensive graphical program to monitor the ports on my switches?
(Presented by SearchNetworking.com)
Expert: Retired expert - Loki Jorgenson, Ph. D. | 29 Mar 2004
EXPERT RESPONSE - Is there a cheap, fast and graphical program that can monitor the ports on my Baystack 450 switches so I can tell which port is broadcasting tons of traffic without having to use an expensive consultant or sniffer?
Testing Local Resources - from 'Nagios: System and Network Monitoring'
(Presented by SearchNetworking.com)
SearchNetworking.com | 22 May 2006
GENERIC - Keep track of your network activity with open source monitoring app, Nagios. Chapter 7, "Testing Local Resources" explains how to test plug-ins over a local network since some lack their own network protocols.
Basic Object Configuration, chapter 2 of 'Pro Nagios 2.0'
(Presented by SearchNetworking.com)
SearchNetworking.com | 22 May 2006
GENERIC - Get started on the basics of configuring your Nagios server to monitor hosts and services. Learn the differences between Nagios object types and their capabilities.
Splunk + Nagios = quick data center troubleshooting
(Presented by SearchNetworking.com)
SearchNetworking.com | 18 Apr 2006
Q A INTERVIEW - A lack of prescience in Splunk's spunky search-based troubleshooting tool limited its usage to after-the-fact diagnosis. Adding Nagios, the mighty open source monitoring tool, puts Splunkers one step ahead in the data...
Switching from commercial network management products to Nagios
(Presented by SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
Expert: Bernard Golden | 19 May 2005
EXPERT RESPONSE - Nagios can be used in place of commercial network management tools like HP's OpenView, CA's Unicenter, as well as products from other vendors like IQ Software. I don't know that you'd be giving up any particular...
Using Nagios with custom plugins
(Presented by SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
Expert: Bernard Golden | 14 Jul 2005
EXPERT RESPONSE - Wow -- this is the longest question I've ever gotten!

Nagios is a very flexible product that can undoubtedly accomplish what you want to do. It is very capable of accommodating custom-written plugins of the sort you...

Broadband networking firm gets hooked up with OpenNMS
(Presented by SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
SearchEnterpriseLinux.com | 20 Oct 2005
ARTICLE - New Edge Networks Inc. is getting a lot of mileage out of OpenNMS, an open source network management application.
Nagios: Balancing passive and active checks
(Presented by SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
SearchEnterpriseLinux.com | 04 Dec 2006
TIP - The author of "Network monitoring with Nagios" suggests a workaround for balancing active and passive checks and explains the impact of service failures.
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