[plug] Is there an opensource app similar to HP OpenView?

[Chris Caston]

On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 12:19, William Kenworthy wrote:
> Thanks, Big Sister looks to be the best so far.  What I like is the
> overview and then drill down that OpenView and Big Sister have.
> OpenView used to great when one has a lot of servers to look after - its
> easy to spot whats gone wheels up quickly.
> 
> BillK
> 

OK.

I was under the impression that HP Openview was for logging helpdesk
calls.

Try:

http://www.nagios.org/

regards,

Chris
> 
> On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 10:26 +0800, Quintin Lette wrote:
> >  On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 21:55, W.Kenworthy wrote:
> >  > Is there an opensource application similar to HP OpenView?
> >  >
> >  > BillK
> >  
> > 
> > If you are mainly looking for monitoring maybe something like big
> > sister (http://bigsister.graeff.com/ - I've never used this) or even
> > Cacti (www.cacti.net - which I use to monitor a production
> > environment)
> > 
> > If you are looking for a particular feature of HP OpenView not
> > supported in these you may need to look further.
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