which Network Management System is usefull

[juppderwal]

Hello there,

I am a newbee in this case. We have a small small remote network with some webservers, pix firewall an switches that we want to check with snmp. Now we want to by a network management system and confessed that the most are very expensive. For our small network I guess we dont need half of the functionality of what these systems offer.

Could someone of you give me a hint if there is a cheap network management system?

Greetings

Martin

 

[PalmTest]

Hello Martin,

Monitor your network with MRTG or Cacti.

http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/

http://www.cacti.net/

Manage your network with OpenNMS.

http://wiki.opennms.org/tiki-index.php

Take a look at:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Network-Tools/

or

http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/categories/8/

and search for the OpenSource or Freeware stuff.

 

[juppderwal]

Hello PalmTest,

thank you for your answer.

I just checked the links you posted. It looks like it is kind of difficult for a newbee and you have to program a couple of things for your own. But we dont want to pay something like 2000 dollars like hp open view or something.

 

[Castor66]

Have a look at whatsup gold. Very straightfrward and does the job. It won't break the bank if you have a budget for it as well.

http://www.ipswitch.com/Products/network-management.html

In the OpenSource arena take a look at opennms -

http://wiki.opennms.org/tiki-index.php

As regards programming - I haven't ever had to do any. You have to configure systems and specify what you want monitored but no programming.

 

[lgarner]

I use Nagios mostly. Also Cacti and NMIS.