NMS - what are you guys using?

[shadow_man]

Network monitoring systems - what are you guys using?

It's that time of the year when I start to compare platforms again....

Are Nagios and Zabbix still the main contenders in this field or are people looking at Observium or other projects?

I'd like to know what you guys are doing. Especially those in the hosting fields.

Thanks,

 

[Tinuva]

At my company we use more than one.

1. PRTG checks all our systems, and is the main system in use. Mostly manually configured.
2. Observium check all our network devices, it also graphs most of our servers. This is mostly used to look at historic data. It's much easier to pull data like this from Observium, because not everything is graphed in PRTG
3. Cacti - ancient install in place, to monitor some important graphs on the network, mostly because we can combine graphs and configure the default display for a TV.

For graphing, however Observium is far superior to Cacti. Observium is what I would suggest.
For monitoring to when issues arrive, I don't think Observium is good enough yet, while it can do this.

 

[Murmaider]

We use zabbix purely because of the level of customization that can be done in it.
Being able to make cross device graphing and triggers and also being able to graph and trend absolutely anything that can give a value is awesome.

For example, we able to graph all of our mail queues across all our cpanel servers.
We can then combine all of those into a single graph to give us an overall graph of all queue'd mails across our entire cpanel infrastructure.

 

[Diabolix]

We are using Zenoss 4.2.0, but we are still running a legacy Zabbix system.

It will most likely be thrown out in the next few months.

One can also do some nice customization with Zenoss, and it has a bunch of zenpacks which adds functionality.