Paul A. Luzzi

March 29, 2011

Working on a newly updated monitoring suite – this time the OpenNMS package. I’ve been a user of BigBrother for many many years – I guess its 13 or 14 now, since I began in 1997 or so. Its been ultra solid, ultra reliable, but has a very dated look to it since I still run a combination of 1.5 and 1.2 releases. So the OpenNMS seemed modern, easy to configure, etc – so I’m giving it a try. Good links for that are here, here, and here. Basically, if you can live with remote monitoring only, and snmp polling – its really solid. But if you need host side monitoring (checking service status on windows, or process status on unix/linux) – then I still prefer BB.