<div dir="ltr">We looked at it at one point and it seemed pretty good, although had way more information than we use most of the time.<div><br></div><div>We should look at it again now though as that was a few months back.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Georgia</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Alexander Chemeris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alexander.chemeris@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexander.chemeris@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">May be a bit off-topic, but have you guys seen Inveneo's NMS?<br>
<a href="http://www.ictworks.org/2013/08/07/inveneos-network-management-software-now-available-to-the-public/" target="_blank">http://www.ictworks.org/2013/08/07/inveneos-network-management-software-now-available-to-the-public/</a><br>
<br>
It looks like a great thing to me and worth cooperating with if one<br>
need an open-source NMS.<br>
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On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:21 AM, Ben West <<a href="mailto:ben@gowasabi.net">ben@gowasabi.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> I've worked with Zabbix before, but I found it rather fussy to set up in the<br>
> first place. For monitoring, I've had better experiences using munin,<br>
> especially since munin's default graphing function is generally quite nice<br>
> out of the box.<br>
><br>
> Another detail is what local agent must run on the nodes to collect whatever<br>
> data is to be sent the dashboard. cron-based dashboard checkin scripts are<br>
> common; ROBIN mesh used this approach and I think WLAN Slovenia's uses it<br>
> now too.<br>
><br>
> Alternatively, OpenWRT does have packages for both a local zabbix agent and<br>
> also a shell-based munin agent ("muninlite") on the node.<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/packages/admin/zabbix" target="_blank">https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/packages/admin/zabbix</a><br>
> <a href="https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/packages/admin/muninlite" target="_blank">https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/packages/admin/muninlite</a><br>
> <a href="http://munin-monitoring.org/wiki/OpenWRT-HowTo" target="_blank">http://munin-monitoring.org/wiki/OpenWRT-HowTo</a><br>
><br>
> I was briefly looking into having muninlite to run locally on WasabiNet<br>
> nodes and talk to a munin server in the Cloud. However, I ultimately veered<br>
> away from this tool, as it requires xinetd to run continuously (chewing up<br>
> ~1Mbyte of RAM).<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Preston Rhea<br>
> <<a href="mailto:prestonrhea@opentechinstitute.org">prestonrhea@opentechinstitute.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> We are exploring Zabbix as a monitoring tool for Commotion nodes. It<br>
>> can report some useful stuff, but for it to be easier to monitor the<br>
>> status of a whole network, one would need to use triggers and group<br>
>> data aggregation to read information at a glance.<br>
>><br>
>> Has anyone worked with Zabbix who could provide some guidance,<br>
>> especially with triggers and data aggregation on the dashboard?<br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
>> Preston Rhea<br>
>> Field Analyst, Open Technology Institute<br>
>> New America Foundation<br>
>> <a href="tel:%2B1-202-570-9770" value="+12025709770">+1-202-570-9770</a><br>
>> Twitter: @prestonrhea<br>
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</div></div>Regards,<br>
Alexander Chemeris.<br>
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