[OpenIndiana-discuss] NMS software for snmp-based network monitoring that runs on OI? What's your favourite?

[Geoff Nordli]

On 2017-05-10 11:45 AM, Tim Mooney wrote:
> In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NMS software for snmp-based 
> network...:
>
>> What NMSes are you using, any that will run in OI?
>
> OI has packages for Zabbix, which is what I would call a traditional
> monitoring solution.  It can do both server-initiated monitors (polling)
> and client-initiated monitors.  I don't know if the OI one is compiled
> with SNMP support (that's optional), but you could find out quickly by
> installing the package and then starting the service and looking in the
> log file.
>
> When I was evaluating monitoring solutions for work 4 years ago, I
> actually ended up choosing Zabbix, and we've been using it ever since.
> There were a few reasons why I chose it (at the time) over things like
> Nagios, Xenoss Core, or Munin:
>
> - Our Windows admins didn't have to edit Linux-based config files to set
>   up new probes (items) or alerts (triggers) -- that can all be done
>   through the web-based GUI.
> - It has one supported and relatively decent web interface (rather than
>   10 different, partially implemented ones -- I'm looking at you, Nagios)
> - It has very good support for Windows (in addition to Linux & UNIX)
> - The documentation was very good and the main docs covered everything
>   I needed to do -- I didn't have to hunt through documentation scattered
>   everywhere.
> - Its templates were fairly powerful and mostly easy to use, so it was
>   easy to set up e.g. a "base linux system in Datacenter X" template
>   and apply it widely and get all the same basic probes, alerts, etc.
> - Its API is easy to use and pretty complete.
>
> One thing to keep in mind -- monitoring has changed a *lot* in the last
> four years.  Packages like graphite had only rudimentary support for
> alerting when I was doing my search 4 years ago.  Prometheus barely
> existed 4 years ago.
>
> Tim


I second what Tim says.   I don't run Zabbix on OI, but I do run it in a 
linux VM and it has been working great.

Another bonus is Zabbix is not "open core", with an "enterprise" 
version.  You get the same package, whether you are buying support or not.

Geoff