Once years ago a coworker set this up with good intentions of evaluating it and it ended up setting up a default automation which sent SNMP queries to a networked photocopier which triggered it to print some diagnostic page repeatedly until it ran out of paper overnight while no one was around. Anecdotal, but amusing to me and it's still the first thing that comes to mind when I see this product.
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
#22Five 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
I don't find the visualizations shown on websites terribly convincing, so I kind of get it. Yes, you need to kick the tires to understand if it is useful.
Re: OpenNMS: Visualize and monitor everything on your local and distributed networks
#23I'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?
Zabbix is a good all-rounder.
Re: OpenNMS: Visualize and monitor everything on your local and distributed networks
#24I recommend [librenms/librenms: Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system]( https://github.com/librenms/librenms ), which is Open source and free.
...and good, too.
In the default mode, all you have to do for configuration is tell it the names or IPs of things to monitor and an SNMP community string. It scans for every tree that it understands, and will rescan occasionally.
Re: OpenNMS: Visualize and monitor everything on your local and distributed networks
#25Found screenshots of the free version: https://www.opennms.com/horizon/#iLightbox[image_carousel_1]...
Re: OpenNMS: Visualize and monitor everything on your local and distributed networks
#26"open"
They were bought the failing NantHealth, then jettisoned a large amount of the talent and now blame being open source for failure...
Re: OpenNMS: Visualize and monitor everything on your local and distributed networks
#27I'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?
Zabbix is fabulous.
Re: OpenNMS: Visualize and monitor everything on your local and distributed networks
#28I've been using LibreNMS since 2014 and I even contributed to a feature, I can say it's in the top 3 SNMP monitoring tools, excellent tool.
Re: OpenNMS: Visualize and monitor everything on your local and distributed networks
#29I recommend [librenms/librenms: Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system]( https://github.com/librenms/librenms ), which is Open source and free.
...and good, too. In the default mode, all you have to do for configuration is tell it the names or IPs of things to monitor and an SNMP community string. It scans for every tree that it understands, and will rescan occasionally.
Does that mean that it has a library of devices so that it knows what SNMP stuff from them means? (I barely know how SNMP works).
Re: OpenNMS: Visualize and monitor everything on your local and distributed networks
#30The 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.
It is (or was?) open source. [0]
I know the company behind the OSS project was acquired though, and I couldn't speak to how / whether the oss version still receives much attention these days.