[geeks] Network Monitoring / Mangement Systems

[James Fogg]

> I'm writing an article for a tech website (not one of mine) that's a
brief
> review of the current "state of the art" in open-source/freeware
network
> monitoring and management software.
>
> I'm currently planning on covering:
>
> Nagios
>
> OpenNMS
>
> Zenoss
>
> Are there any other "big players" that are new to the field that I've
> overlooked?  (I'm not counting "bundles" that are just fancy wrappers
and
> integrations around Nagios, etc, or pure-graphing stuff like Cacti).
>
> I was originally planning on covering Big Brother as well, but it
seems
> that Quest Software bought them a few years back, letting the freely
> available version stagnate a couple of major revisions behind their
now
> commercial version.


BB is still useful.

And RANCID is still around. My present employer actually had a customer
go back to it since it did a better job archiving configs than our own
software.