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Asked: 2009-08-22 13:32:56 +0800 CST

Opensource Network Management

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My network Admin asked me if I had heard of any opensource competitor to Ciscoworks and Solarwinds for Network Administration/Management. We have a full implementation of Cacti and Nagios for monitoring, but I haven't really delved much into the realm of Cisco/Checkpoint/HP procurve management. Anyone use anything that fits the bill?

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    I would suggest two options. The first being more of a HP/Openview competitor that will scale very large but also has a lot of complextity to it. That product is openNMS. http://www.opennms.org. The second tool which is the route we took is to use RANCID (horrible name but cool tool) http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/. It will diff your configs. Therefore notifying you of any changes to network gear. You can integrate it into other monitoring applications such as Zenoss http://www.zenoss.com/community/docs/zenoss-guide/2.2.4/ch35s02.html

    But it really comes down to how you are managing your devices. If you are a gui admin then it may be worth it to cough up the bucks for Ciscoworks or Solarwinds.

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  2. I've recently started to use NeDi http://www.nedi.ch. I haven't fully implemented all of the features ,but in my opinion, the ones I have used are at least on a par with CiscoWorks. The web interface is also much faster.

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