Slightly [OT] Network Monitoring/Alerting tools

[Mark Haney]

I know this has been bandied about by every n00b about once every couple 
of months, but hear me out.

I'm no n00b and I'm in the awkward position to try to find a potential 
replacement for our Proprietary monitoring solution (SMARTS if anyone is 
familiar with it.)  We run SMARTS along with Nagios and several home 
grown scripts, but my boss has this itch to find something that might 
potentially replace SMARTS, but give him a nice GUI to work with.

I've used Nagios and I like it.  Also BB4.  But what else is out there 
that is new or relatively new, that does network monitoring and alerting?

We need something like Nagios, SNMP, port monitoring, interface 
monitoring on our core routers, etc.  WE also need something really 
granular for alerting via text or email so we don't get deluged with 
messages at night for things that aren't critical.

Has anyone used (or is using) something not that many not be well known 
but works well that they can recommend for me to take a look at?

I've googled until I'm sick of it, and nothing I've picked out really 
strikes me as adequate for our needs.  So now I'm turning to the Fedora 
community for ideas.


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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
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