I recommend [librenms/librenms: Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system](https://github.com/librenms/librenms), which is Open source and free.
OpenNMS: Visualize and monitor everything on your local and distributed networks
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Re: OpenNMS: Visualize and monitor everything on your local and distributed networks
#12I'd like a proper (but not necessarily professional) network monitoring tool for a home network running on a rpi 4 alongside home assistant - is that it?
I’m not sure about this one, but I recently installed LibreNMS (an open source nms) on my home network and it does a decent job keeping track of traffic on my ubiquiti edgerouter. It uses snmp so should work with most routers, I imagine. I specifically set it up to tell me when I use more than a certain amount of data in a day to avoid data caps. It was a bit fiddly to set up, but kind of fun.
Re: OpenNMS: Visualize and monitor everything on your local and distributed networks
#13The pricing page shows the smallest plan is $12,000 a year. Given the lack of any screenshots or workflow info, I'm not going to reach out to their sales and demo this. It's way too much money for a complete unknown.
Re: OpenNMS: Visualize and monitor everything on your local and distributed networks
#14Network visualization tools have generally been a solution in search of a problem for me. At both work and home, my network is very stable and unchanging.
Re: OpenNMS: Visualize and monitor everything on your local and distributed networks
#15Five clicks in to a visualization tool’s website I don’t see any diagrams or screenshots makes it challenging to want to kick the tires on this
There’s a link to their YouTube channel in documentation. That has a few demos, although I did not check them out
I never understand why people do this. This is a great way to lose your prospective leads to cat videos.
Re: OpenNMS: Visualize and monitor everything on your local and distributed networks
#16"open"
As in "Open your wallet"
Re: OpenNMS: Visualize and monitor everything on your local and distributed networks
#17Five clicks in to a visualization tool’s website I don’t see any diagrams or screenshots makes it challenging to want to kick the tires on this
Damn, not much has changed since I last looked at the project nearly 15 years ago when evaluating it against other management packages in an academic computing center. So frustrating to have all of the words words words and not a single shot of it in action, ya know, like you’d see it when in use.
Re: OpenNMS: Visualize and monitor everything on your local and distributed networks
#18Network visualization tools have generally been a solution in search of a problem for me. At both work and home, my network is very stable and unchanging.
I think these tools are generally more for alerting and the visualization is just a nice to have feature. At least that's how I've always used them.
Re: OpenNMS: Visualize and monitor everything on your local and distributed networks
#19I'd like a proper (but not necessarily professional) network monitoring tool for a home network running on a rpi 4 alongside home assistant - is that it?
If you want to drop $12k, maybe.
Re: OpenNMS: Visualize and monitor everything on your local and distributed networks
#20"open"
It's almost impressive how the current OpenNMS leadership manages to miss the point of open source entirely. It's like they think "open" just refers to the tabs in their web browser.