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

[Buchan Milne]

On Monday, 18 October 2010 18:18:03 Epp, Matthew Mr CTR USA USA wrote:
> 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.

For the equivalent of mrtg, you can more or less copy an existing template. 
The template complexity comes in when you want to do something *more* complex 
than what mrtg does.

> Instead of mrtg we use Cacti. It's easier to manage
> and most device templates already exist for importing.

Which devices do you need templates for? Have you tried creating templates for 
them in devmon?

Regards,
Buchan