network monitoring solutions
DESCRIPTION
GoldenFrog Summer Internship ProjectTRANSCRIPT
NETWORK MONITORING SOLUTIONS
Steven Borik
Corey Muniz
Brandon Irizarry
7/14/2015
PRE-PROJECT PREPARATION
- Monitoring PAW
- Learning PK
- Troubleshooting problems
PROJECT INTRODUCTION
Research
Meetings with Stakeholders
Implementing/Testing Top Software
PHASE 1 - RESEARCHPaid Solution Open Source
ZenossSplunkOpManagerVeraxSensuServer DensityArturisCopperEggMindArraySolarWindsDatadogPandora FMSArgus-the all-seeingIBM TivoliKaseya Traverse
MonitIcingaNagiosZenoss CoreZabbixMuninShinkenMonitorixOpsviewopenNMSObserviumLibreNMS
PHASE 2 - MEETINGS
Giganews
• Phil Molter• Mark LaForest• Ronald Kauffman• LSAs (Steven Klestinect, Chu Song, Thomas Elrod, Matt Wash)
DataFoundry
• Clay Bishop• BrianCohen• William McCormick
IT
• Chris Marsh• Thomas Adams
PHASE 3 - IMPLEMENTATION
Zabbix, LibreNMS, Zenoss, Nagios
Observium
LibreNMS
Mind Array
Nagios
Argus
PandoraFMS
Copper Egg
Zabbix
Icinga
Zenoss
SOFTWARE 1: LIBRENMS
PROS CONS
Comprehensive
Graphing
Lacks Quality
Support
No Ticket
Integration
Aesthetic
Plugin Friendly
SOFTWARE 2: ZABBIX
Highly Customizable
In-Depth Graphing
Powerful Alerting
Clean UI
Minor MiB Support
Very Resource Dependent
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SOFTWARE 3: ZENOSS
Pros• In-Depth SNMP-Walking• Comprehensive Solution for All
Departments • Complete Ticket Integration• ZenPacks
Cons• Paid Solution
HONORABLE MENTION: NAGIOS
• Open Source Industry Standard• Large Support Base• Strong Multi-Level Alerting• Plugins
PROS:
• Plugins• Steep Learning Curve• Lengthy Integration Process• Dated/Clunky UI
CONS:
Weight Requirement Zabbix LibreNMS Nagios Zenoss5 Agentless 2 5 5 5
5 Event Logging 4 4 3 5
5 Multilevel Alerting(more than up/down) 4 4 4 5
5 Plug-in Availability 3 1 5 5
5 Ticketing Integration 1 2 3 5
5 Customizable Graphing GUI 5 1 3 3
5 Open Source 5 5 5 2
5 Ease of Set-Up 3 5 1 3
5 IPv6 4 3 3 5
5 Quality of Presentation 5 5 2 5
4 Customizable Dashboards 5 5 1 5
4 Aggregate Graphing 5 2 2 3
2 Monitoring Dockers 2 0 2 5
4 Application Monitoring 4 3 3 5
4 Quality of Individual Alerts 4 4 5 5
4 Service Monitoring 4 3 3 5
4 Support 4 1 5 5
4 Alert Reporting 3 1 3 5
5 Ease of writing plugins 3 5 3 5
3 Vendor Device Support (MIBS) 3 5 2 4
3 Departament Uniformity 4 3 3 5
3 Network/Device Mapping 3 4 3 5
2 Slack/IRC integration 4 5 4 5
2 Inventory Management 5 5 0 5
2 SLA Reporting 4 0 3 5
Total RAW Scores: 96 81 76 117
Total WEIGHTED Scores: 381 332 299 454!
WINNER!