Network Monitoring Solutions

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!