NETWORK MONITORING

SOLUTIONS
Steven Borik
Corey Muniz
Brandon Irizarry
7/14/2015

PRE-PROJECT PREPARATION
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Monitoring PAW
Learning PK
Troubleshooting problems

PROJECT INTRODUCTION
Research
Research

Meetings
Meetings with
with
Stakeholders
Stakeholders

Implementing/Testing
Implementing/Testing
Top
Top Software
Software

PHASE 1 - RESEARCH
Paid Solution
Zenoss
Splunk
OpManager
Verax
Sensu
Server Density
Arturis
CopperEgg
MindArray
SolarWinds
Datadog
Pandora FMS
Argus-the all-seeing
IBM Tivoli
Kaseya Traverse

Open Source
Monit
Icinga
Nagios
Zenoss Core
Zabbix
Munin
Shinken
Monitorix
Opsview
openNMS
Observium
LibreNMS

PHASE 2 - MEETINGS
Phil
Phil Molter
Molter
Mark
Mark LaForest
LaForest
Ronald
Ronald Kauffman
Kauffman
Giganews
Giganews
LSAs
LSAs (Steven
(Steven Klestinect,
Klestinect, Chu
Chu Song,
Song, Thomas
Thomas Elrod,
Elrod, Matt
Matt Wash)
Wash)

Clay
Clay Bishop
Bishop
BrianCohen
BrianCohen
DataFoundry
DataFoundry William
William McCormick
McCormick

IT
IT

Chris
Chris Marsh
Marsh
Thomas
Thomas Adams
Adams

PHASE 3 - IMPLEMENTATION
Argus
Argus
PandoraFMS
PandoraFMS
Copper
Copper Egg
Egg

Zabbix
Zabbix
Icinga
Icinga
Zenoss
Zenoss

Observium
Observium
LibreNMS
LibreNMS
Mind
Mind Array
Array
Nagios
Nagios

Zabbix, LibreNMS, Zenoss,

Nagios

SOFTWARE 1: LIBRENMS
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Pros

SOFTWARE 2: ZABBIX
Highly
Customizable
In-Depth
Graphing
Powerful Alerting
Clean UI

Minor MiB
Support
Very Resource
Dependent

Cons

SOFTWARE 3: ZENOSS
Pros
In-Depth SNMP-Walking
Comprehensive Solution for All
Departments
Complete Ticket Integration
ZenPacks

Cons
Paid Solution

HONORABLE MENTION: NAGIOS

PROS:

Open Source Industry Standard

Large Support Base
Strong Multi-Level Alerting
Plugins

CONS:

Plugins
Steep Learning Curve
Lengthy Integration Process
Dated/Clunky UI

Weight
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
4
4
2
4
4
4
4
4
5
3
3
3
2
2
2

Requirement

Zabbix

LibreNMS

Nagios

Zenoss

Agentless
Event Logging
Multilevel Alerting(more than up/down)
Plug-in Availability
Ticketing Integration
Customizable Graphing GUI
Open Source
Ease of Set-Up
IPv6
Quality of Presentation
Customizable Dashboards
Aggregate Graphing
Monitoring Dockers
Application Monitoring
Quality of Individual Alerts
Service Monitoring
Support
Alert Reporting
Ease of writing plugins
Vendor Device Support (MIBS)
Departament Uniformity
Network/Device Mapping
Slack/IRC integration
Inventory Management
SLA Reporting

2
4
4
3
1
5
5
3
4
5
5
5
2
4
4
4
4
3
3
3
4
3
4
5
4

5
4
4
1
2
1
5
5
3
5
5
2
0
3
4
3
1
1
5
5
3
4
5
5
0

5
3
4
5
3
3
5
1
3
2
1
2
2
3
5
3
5
3
3
2
3
3
4
0
3

5
5
5
5
5
3
2
3
5
5
5
3
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
4
5
5
5
5
5

Total RAW Scores:

96

81

76

117

Total WEIGHTED Scores:

381

332

299

454!

WINNER!