Cacti (http://www.raxnet.net) is good for bandwidth monitoring, but doesn't
send alerts.  Nagios works well for alerts, but it's kind of a pain to set
up.  There's a script that comes with nagios-plugins that will check for
down interfaces and this works quite well, I'm using it now.  

If you want to spend a little money, you could always buy Intermapper from
www.dartware.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mjn [mailto:mjn at umn.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 9:30 AM
> To: Twirling Pickles of Death
> Subject: [TCLUG] SNMP monitors...
> 
> 
> I've been asked to find some software for SNMP monitoring 
> here at work.
> 
> I know very little about the protocol (I know what MIBs are and that
> querying them will get you information about the machine in questions,
> provided you know what to ask for) and do not have much 
> experience with
> software for monitoring it.
> 
> Ideally, we're looking for something free -or very close to 
> it- with a web
> interface and the capability to send problem notifications. Our shop
> consists of Novell, Windows, and Linux servers and would 
> probably like to
> have this running on our linux box.
> 
> I've taken a look at both Big Sister and Zabbix briefly but I was
> wondering if anyone out there had anything dear to their 
> heart that they'd
> recommend.
> 
> Thanks for hte input.
> 
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