Thanks Kim, I will look up Groundwork <a href="http://www.groundworkopensource.com/community/" target="_blank">http://www.groundworkopensource.com/community/</a><br><br>Thanks Donna, both Nagios and Cacti also came recommended from another source :-)<br>
<br>My only concern with these was the setup time to config, tweak and update. I guess they cannot be too hard, my tech Arran just finished building the VM server for each in a half hour. :-)<br><br>Regards Roland<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">2009/6/29 Donna Benjamin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:donna@cc.com.au">donna@cc.com.au</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Roland - Peter uses Nagios and Cacti.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.nagios.org" target="_blank">http://www.nagios.org</a><br>
<a href="http://www.cacti.net/" target="_blank">http://www.cacti.net/</a><br>
<br>
cheers<br>
Donna<br>
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On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 12:39 +1000, Roland Gesthuizen wrote:<br>
> We are looking for some source software that we can use to monitor our<br>
> servers, services and network devices at our secondary school.<br>
> Basically a dashboard that tells me what is up and what is down .. and<br>
> some logging tools that reports the network health in more detail. It<br>
> will need to be easy to use, robust, not too challenging to setup or<br>
> maintain, not require a PHD to setup or a specialist team to rebuild<br>
> if it falls over or upgrade. Whilst auto discovery would be nice, we<br>
> can pour in the hostnames, IPs and services to examine and track.<br>
> Perhaps what we will end up is a suite of tools.<br>
><br>
> To date we were using<br>
> * Big Brother (not really free) <a href="http://bb4.org" target="_blank">http://bb4.org</a><br>
> * Sarg - Squid Analysis Report Generator:<br>
> <a href="http://sarg.sourceforge.net/sarg.php" target="_blank">http://sarg.sourceforge.net/sarg.php</a><br>
> It has been suggested that we explore:<br>
> * Nardios: <a href="http://www.nagios.org" target="_blank">http://www.nagios.org</a><br>
> * OpenNMS; <a href="http://www.opennms.org" target="_blank">http://www.opennms.org</a><br>
> It has also been suggested that we evaluate:<br>
> * <a href="http://www.zabbix.com/index.php" target="_blank">http://www.zabbix.com/index.php</a><br>
> * <a href="http://collectd.org/" target="_blank">http://collectd.org/</a><br>
> * <a href="http://munin.projects.linpro.no/" target="_blank">http://munin.projects.linpro.no/</a><br>
> I have managed to track down these reviews<br>
> * OpenNMS -<br>
> <a href="http://www.opennms.org/index.php/Comparison_with_other_network_management_systems" target="_blank">http://www.opennms.org/index.php/Comparison_with_other_network_management_systems</a><br>
> * Comparision -<br>
> <a href="http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/open-source-network-management-download-comparison/" target="_blank">http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/open-source-network-management-download-comparison/</a><br>
> Does anybody have any experience, suggestions or recommendations what<br>
> would be appropriate for a secondary school?<br>
><br>
> Regards Roland<br>
> --<br>
> Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College<br>
> <a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au</a><br>
><br>
> "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can<br>
> change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has."<br>
> --Margaret Mead<br>
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