[mrtg] Re: NOC overview

[Mark Yarbrough]

Take a look at bigsister as well...
http://bigsister.graeff.com/
A qote from the homepage

Big Sister is a clone of Sean MacGuire's Big Brother. Its primary functions 
are: 
monitor networked systems 
provide a simple view of the current network status 
generate alarms on status changes 
generate a history of status changes 
interoperate with other Big Sister or Big Brother instances or foreign network 
monitors (such as HP Openview) 

I havn't used it yet but it seems to be very well docmumented if you have to 
use a system like this.  

I have used Nocol in the past and it worked just fine for my unix needs take a 
look at 

http://www.netplex-tech.com/software/snips/

It isn't as full featrured as BigSister or BB but it is very functional.  

Mark Yarbrough


On Monday 16 December 2002 12:45 pm, Andrew Davis wrote:
> Got this off the MRTG mailing list. So... could one of the BB guys
> please explain exactly what the licenses mean in light of the newer Pro
> version? I was under the impression that BB was *completely free* for
> use, even in production systems, but that if I wanted support I had to
> pay for it, or more recently, be using the pro version.
>
> Better stated... if I am monitoring 10+ production system, those systems
> being used to generate revenue for my company, am I allowed to use BB
> for free?
>
> AD
>
> John wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 09:55:08AM -0800, Mike Singleton wrote:
> >>Anyone know of anything that would give a NOC an overview of the entire
> >>network at a glance... a.k.a. Net-Sonar (only free?)
> >
> > Well, the biggest open/free one that I know of is Nagios, formerly known
> > as Netsaint. It requires some time to setup, but it's a network
> > monitoring tool, which is apparantly what you're asking for.
> >
> > There's also NMS and telemetry box (not sure of it's status).
> >
> > There are lots of people charging for network monitoring tools out
> > there, but AFAIK, Nagios is the most developed free (beer and speech)
> > one out there.
> >
> > If you want to use Big Brother (BB) for monitoring stuff that people are
> > paying for, it's not free. From their 'better than free' license:
> >
> > 1.Non-Commercial Use
> > No part of the Big Brother System and Network Monitor may be used for
> > any commercial purpose after a 30 day evaluation period without
> > obtaining a commercial license from BB4 Technologies Inc. Commercial
> > purpose includes any activity engaged for the purpose of directly
> > generating revenues including the sale of the product, use of the
> > product to provide a service or in support of a service for which you
> > charge.
> >
> > it's the 'in support of a service' bit that does you in.
> >
> > Not that BB isn't a decent product, I think it is, but their
> > 'better-than-free' license http://bb4.com/license-text.html isn't 'free'
> > nor is it better than free. You can't use it for whatever you want and
> > you cannot redistribute it without prior written permission. You also
> > are required to link to their website with your monitoring page.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > j
> >
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