[xymon] devmon or mrtg which is good for network devices monitoring

Epp, Matthew Mr CTR USA USA matthew.epp at us.army.mil
Mon Oct 18 19:18:03 CEST 2010


Daniel J McDonald wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 20:56 +0530, rigved sharma wrote:
>> Hi,
>> sorry for the earlier mail..i want to know which one is good for xymon
>> for network devices monitoring..devmon/mrtg.
>> Please help.
> 
> It's a religious question.  I use mrtg because it supports snmp-v3, I
> already have my templates built, and I can live with the hack that is
> bb-mrtg.pl.  Other people like devmon, but I haven't been able to test
> it because of the snmp-v3 issue.
> 

I use devmon for some device polling, although it takes some time writing templates for devices. 
Instead of mrtg we use Cacti. It's easier to manage and most device templates already exist for 
importing.



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