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. > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Mike Neuharth > ADCS Technology Specialist > http://www.umn.edu/adcs > =============================================== > E-Mail : mjn at umn.edu > Page Mail : 6126486512 at page.metrocall.com > _______________________________________________ > "What is important, it seems to me, is not so much to defend a culture > whose existence has never kept a man from going hungry, as > to extract, > from what is called culture, ideas whose compelling force is > identical > with that of hunger." -Antonin Artaud > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list