NMS lineup
Commercial Offerings:
- HP OpenView
- Micromuse’s NetCool (now IBM’s)
- Mercury’s
- Quest’s BigBrother
- Quest’s Foglight
- Cisco’s Control Center(?)
- Nimsoft’s NimBUS
- IBM’s Tivoli Monitoring
- Server’s Alive
- ManageEngine’s OpManager (free for the first 20 devices)
Open-source free offerings:
- JFFNMS - Just for Fun Network Management System
- Nagios
- NMIS - Network Management Information System
- Big Brother (FOSS)
- Big Sister
- development is stagnant. out-dated documentation
- hard to make it work for a senior system engineer with years of big brother experience.
- Hobbit Monitor
- An total-rewrite in C . It originally emulates BigBrother, now has surpassed.
- actively developed. current version of v4.2.0 with all-in-one-patch as of 2006/10/03.
- OpenNMS
- Passifist - passive network discovery
- netsaint
Useful toolkits to build baseline for trending:
Other useful resources:
