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

William Kenworthy billk at iinet.net.au
Sat Sep 10 17:29:29 WST 2005


They use nagios at work (and cacti) - I am not that impressed - its ok
but I am looking for something better and a bit less admin heavy.  Not
sure about Big Sister until I get around to trying it.

BillK


On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 14:39 +0800, Chris Caston wrote:
> 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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