NETWORK MONITORING SOLUTIONS
Steven Borik Corey Muniz Brandon Irizarry 7/14/2015 PRE-PROJECT PREPARATION
- Monitoring PAW - Learning PK - Troubleshooting problems
PROJECT INTRODUCTION
ResearchResearch
MeetingsMeetings withwith StakeholdersStakeholders
Implementing/TestingImplementing/Testing TopTop SoftwareSoftware PHASE 1 - RESEARCH Paid Solution Open Source
Zenoss Monit Splunk Icinga OpManager Nagios Verax Zenoss Core Sensu Zabbix Munin Server Density Shinken Arturis Monitorix CopperEgg Opsview MindArray openNMS SolarWinds Observium Datadog LibreNMS Pandora FMS Argus-the all-seeing IBM Tivoli Kaseya Traverse PHASE 2 - MEETINGS •• PhilPhil MolterMolter •• MarkMark LaForestLaForest •• GiganewsGiganews RonaldRonald KauffmanKauffman •• LSAsLSAs (Steven(Steven Klestinect,Klestinect, ChuChu Song,Song, ThomasThomas Elrod,Elrod, MattMatt Wash)Wash)
•• ClayClay BishopBishop •• BrianCohenBrianCohen DataFoundryDataFoundry •• WilliamWilliam McCormickMcCormick
•• ChrisChris MarshMarsh •• ThomasThomas AdamsAdams ITIT PHASE 3 - IMPLEMENTATION
ZabbixZabbix IcingaIcinga ArgusArgus ZenossZenoss PandoraFMSPandoraFMS CopperCopper EggEgg
ObserviumObservium LibreNMSLibreNMS MindMind ArrayArray NagiosNagios
Zabbix, LibreNMS, Zenoss, Nagios SOFTWARE 1: LIBRENMS PROS CONS
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s SOFTWARE 3: ZENOSS ProsPros • In-Depth SNMP-Walking • Comprehensive Solution for All Departments • Complete Ticket Integration • ZenPacks ConsCons • Paid Solution HONORABLE MENTION: NAGIOS
• Open Source Industry Standard • Large Support Base PROS:PROS: • Strong Multi-Level Alerting • Plugins
• Plugins • Steep Learning Curve CONS:CONS: • Lengthy Integration Process • Dated/Clunky UI Weight Requirement Zabbix LibreNMS Nagios Zenoss 5 Agentless 2 5 5 5 5 Event Logging 4 4 3 5 5 Multilevel Alerting(more than up/down) 4 4 4 5 5 Plug-in Availability 3 1 5 5 5 Ticketing Integration 1 2 3 5 5 Customizable Graphing GUI 5 1 3 3 5 Open Source 5 5 5 2 5 Ease of Set-Up 3 5 1 3 5 IPv6 4 3 3 5 5 Quality of Presentation 5 5 2 5 4 Customizable Dashboards 5 5 1 5 4 Aggregate Graphing 5 2 2 3 2 Monitoring Dockers 2 0 2 5 4 Application Monitoring 4 3 3 5 4 Quality of Individual Alerts 4 4 5 5 4 Service Monitoring 4 3 3 5 4 Support 4 1 5 5 4 Alert Reporting 3 1 3 5 5 Ease of writing plugins 3 5 3 5 3 Vendor Device Support (MIBS) 3 5 2 4 3 Departament Uniformity 4 3 3 5 3 Network/Device Mapping 3 4 3 5 2 Slack/IRC integration 4 5 4 5 2 Inventory Management 5 5 0 5 2 SLA Reporting 4 0 3 5
Total RAW Scores: 96 81 76 117
Total WEIGHTED Scores: 381 332 299 454! WINNER!