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From: Gordon McDowall <gordon.mcdowall@nildram.net>
To: "'Tony'" <missing@nts.umd.edu>,
	Stanley Hopcroft <Stanley.Hopcroft@IPAustralia.Gov.AU>
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Subject: RE: network management
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 11:49:37 -0000
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I have been messing around with netsaint for a while now and find that it is
a great network monitor, it has a net-snmp plugin that means it can request
snmp info the same as an snmp server can.

Regards

Gordon

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony [mailto:missing@nts.umd.edu]
Sent: 14 December 2001 21:28
To: Stanley Hopcroft
Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: network management



On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Stanley Hopcroft wrote:

> Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
>
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 02:49:50PM -0500, Christopher Meiklejohn wrote:
> > I have had alot of success with MRTG and NOCOL.
> You may want to look at Netsaint (http://www.Netsaint.ORG) rather than
> NOCOL.

But NetSaint is not advertised as an snmp monitor.
http://www.netsaint.org/docs/0_0_6/about.html#whatis
Also, from what I understand, Netcool can do application monitoring.

>
> AFAIK, Netsaint is
>
> . actively developed
>
> . easier to write service checks for
>
> . supports various approaches for remote and distributed monitoring
>
> . has a fair to good story for monitoring M$ boxen.
>
> . has I think better logging and availability reporting

How does Netsaint scale ? I may just have to go check the source myself.

-Tony



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