NETWORK MONITORING SOLUTIONS

Steven BorikCorey Muniz

Brandon Irizarry7/14/2015

PRE-PROJECT PREPARATION- Monitoring PAW- Learning PK- Troubleshooting problems

PROJECT INTRODUCTIONResearch

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 - MEETINGSGiganews

• 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

ObserviumLibreNMSMind Array

Nagios

ArgusPandoraFMSCopper Egg

ZabbixIcinga

Zenoss

SOFTWARE 1: LIBRENMSPROS CON

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Comprehensive

Graphing

Lacks Quality

Support

No Ticket

Integration

Aesthetic

Plugin Friendly

SOFTWARE 2: ZABBIX

Highly CustomizableIn-Depth GraphingPowerful AlertingClean UI

Minor MiB SupportVery Resource Dependent

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SOFTWARE 3: ZENOSSPros• 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 55 Event Logging 4 4 3 55 Multilevel Alerting(more than up/down) 4 4 4 55 Plug-in Availability 3 1 5 55 Ticketing Integration 1 2 3 55 Customizable Graphing GUI 5 1 3 35 Open Source 5 5 5 25 Ease of Set-Up 3 5 1 35 IPv6 4 3 3 55 Quality of Presentation 5 5 2 54 Customizable Dashboards 5 5 1 54 Aggregate Graphing 5 2 2 32 Monitoring Dockers 2 0 2 54 Application Monitoring 4 3 3 54 Quality of Individual Alerts 4 4 5 54 Service Monitoring 4 3 3 54 Support 4 1 5 54 Alert Reporting 3 1 3 55 Ease of writing plugins 3 5 3 53 Vendor Device Support (MIBS) 3 5 2 43 Departament Uniformity 4 3 3 53 Network/Device Mapping 3 4 3 52 Slack/IRC integration 4 5 4 52 Inventory Management 5 5 0 52 SLA Reporting 4 0 3 5

Total RAW Scores: 96 81 76 117

Total WEIGHTED Scores: 381 332 299 454!

WINNER!