Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?
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I've been meaning to set up an SNMP server for a while now because I'm trying to improve visibility into my network so I can better know wtf is going on.
I have come across lots of tools but never really looked too far into them, as I would often get put off by something such as the user interface or how the presentation of the info was. For example, I just looked at Nagios Core (live demo) and it looks good, but it's kind of hard to look at.. maybe I'm just an idiot though.
I just gave Spicework's Network Monitor a try and it looks pretty good. I was able to easily add a bunch of servers and switches within a few minutes and already I have identified a few issues. I'm pretty amazed at how quick that was to get going and make sense of, which is what I've been looking for. That being said, I kind of hate Spiceworks. You have to log in with your account and then there are adds and things. Plus, this network monitor tool keeps crashing..
I'm basically coming here to ask you guys if there are any good and free SNMP servers that are similar to Spiceworks Network Monitor, in layout/visibility and simplicity to setup and configure. Our environment is pretty small but we still have enough devices and things that I need something to help keep my sanity.
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I did just find out about Spiceworks Network Monitor, so I'll give that a try..
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Nagios is free. Although there are quite a few of us here who are using Zabbix. Simple to setup and use.
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+1 for Zabbix
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+2 for zabbix. I'm having a few.issues getting it to work with some switches but sure I'll get there soon
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@hobbit666 said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
+2 for zabbix. I'm having a few.issues getting it to work with some switches but sure I'll get there soon
Snmpwalk should help you there. At least it will get the information to verify. I've also found this site helpful.
http://mibdepot.com/index.shtml -
@dave247 said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
I did just find out about Spiceworks Network Monitor, so I'll give that a try..
Requires a Windows Server license and a lot of horsepower.
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@scottalanmiller said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
@dave247 said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
I did just find out about Spiceworks Network Monitor, so I'll give that a try..
Requires a Windows Server license and a lot of horsepower.
Yes, I know about that. I totally plan on uninstalling once I find something better. Really the only thing I am impressed with on the Spiceworks Network Monitor is the real-time feed of resource info on the servers and switches, which I now realize is the main thing I am after. I was able to quickly see that I had a server consuming tons of memory (something was hung up with AV I think) and so I took care of it right away. Here's the UI:
I mean, with this, I know what I'm actually looking at. It's not a bunch of little boxes that are hard to figure out wtf is going on.. So is there any product out there that can display real-time stats this clearly? -
@dave247 said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
@scottalanmiller said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
@dave247 said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
I did just find out about Spiceworks Network Monitor, so I'll give that a try..
Requires a Windows Server license and a lot of horsepower.
Yes, I know about that. I totally plan on uninstalling once I find something better. Really the only thing I am impressed with on the Spiceworks Network Monitor is the real-time feed of resource info on the servers and switches, which I now realize is the main thing I am after. I was able to quickly see that I had a server consuming tons of memory (something was hung up with AV I think) and so I took care of it right away. Here's the UI:
I mean, with this, I know what I'm actually looking at. It's not a bunch of little boxes that are hard to figure out wtf is going on.. So is there any product out there that can display real-time stats this clearly?Oh, if you are looking for info on servers, rather than network devices, then SodiumSuite will do that for you.
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@scottalanmiller said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
@dave247 said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
@scottalanmiller said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
@dave247 said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
I did just find out about Spiceworks Network Monitor, so I'll give that a try..
Requires a Windows Server license and a lot of horsepower.
Yes, I know about that. I totally plan on uninstalling once I find something better. Really the only thing I am impressed with on the Spiceworks Network Monitor is the real-time feed of resource info on the servers and switches, which I now realize is the main thing I am after. I was able to quickly see that I had a server consuming tons of memory (something was hung up with AV I think) and so I took care of it right away. Here's the UI:
I mean, with this, I know what I'm actually looking at. It's not a bunch of little boxes that are hard to figure out wtf is going on.. So is there any product out there that can display real-time stats this clearly?Oh, if you are looking for info on servers, rather than network devices, then SodiumSuite will do that for you.
I'm interested in monitoring my servers and my switches primarily so that I can monitor for any crazy issues..
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@dave247 said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
@scottalanmiller said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
@dave247 said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
@scottalanmiller said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
@dave247 said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
I did just find out about Spiceworks Network Monitor, so I'll give that a try..
Requires a Windows Server license and a lot of horsepower.
Yes, I know about that. I totally plan on uninstalling once I find something better. Really the only thing I am impressed with on the Spiceworks Network Monitor is the real-time feed of resource info on the servers and switches, which I now realize is the main thing I am after. I was able to quickly see that I had a server consuming tons of memory (something was hung up with AV I think) and so I took care of it right away. Here's the UI:
I mean, with this, I know what I'm actually looking at. It's not a bunch of little boxes that are hard to figure out wtf is going on.. So is there any product out there that can display real-time stats this clearly?Oh, if you are looking for info on servers, rather than network devices, then SodiumSuite will do that for you.
I'm interested in monitoring my servers and my switches primarily so that I can monitor for any crazy issues..
Zabbix is probably what you're looking for. Open source, can be installed on Linux and is extremely easy to setup.
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I believe you posted this on SpiceWorks and while I use it for troubleshooting purposes there is an update on the way the system is going to work in the future in which it will use Network Agents while rigth the product as is will not have further updates.
Zabbix is what I recommended in that thread and others did recommend Observium and PRTG (Which is not free).
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@dbeato said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
I believe you posted this on SpiceWorks and while I use it for troubleshooting purposes there is an update on the way the system is going to work in the future in which it will use Network Agents while rigth the product as is will not have further updates.
What did I miss? They are discontinuing the product? I know that it stalled for a year or more, but they are just giving up and straight up copying Sodium?
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@scottalanmiller said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
@dbeato said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
I believe you posted this on SpiceWorks and while I use it for troubleshooting purposes there is an update on the way the system is going to work in the future in which it will use Network Agents while rigth the product as is will not have further updates.
What did I miss? They are discontinuing the product? I know that it stalled for a year or more, but they are just giving up and straight up copying Sodium?
This
https://community.spiceworks.com/blogs/products/2706-network-monitor-updateThey are changing their approach to agents same as SpiceWorks Inventory.
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@scottalanmiller said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
@dbeato said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
I believe you posted this on SpiceWorks and while I use it for troubleshooting purposes there is an update on the way the system is going to work in the future in which it will use Network Agents while rigth the product as is will not have further updates.
What did I miss? They are discontinuing the product? I know that it stalled for a year or more, but they are just giving up and straight up copying Sodium?
They always had agents for inventory so that hasn’t changed rather the focus is on it instead of just an option.
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@dbeato said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
@scottalanmiller said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
@dbeato said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
I believe you posted this on SpiceWorks and while I use it for troubleshooting purposes there is an update on the way the system is going to work in the future in which it will use Network Agents while rigth the product as is will not have further updates.
What did I miss? They are discontinuing the product? I know that it stalled for a year or more, but they are just giving up and straight up copying Sodium?
They always had agents for inventory so that hasn’t changed rather the focus is on it instead of just an option.
They didn't always have them, they were added much later and were never considered very important.
Wow, they totaly did that three months after Sodium started, it really is them copying the SS design! SS had always worried that it would look too close to SW and did cloud and agents specifically to be as different as possible. Then they flat out copied it just 12 weeks later? That's nuts!
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@scottalanmiller said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
@dbeato said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
@scottalanmiller said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
@dbeato said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
I believe you posted this on SpiceWorks and while I use it for troubleshooting purposes there is an update on the way the system is going to work in the future in which it will use Network Agents while rigth the product as is will not have further updates.
What did I miss? They are discontinuing the product? I know that it stalled for a year or more, but they are just giving up and straight up copying Sodium?
They always had agents for inventory so that hasn’t changed rather the focus is on it instead of just an option.
They didn't always have them, they were added much later and were never considered very important.
Wow, they totaly did that three months after Sodium started, it really is them copying the SS design! SS had always worried that it would look too close to SW and did cloud and agents specifically to be as different as possible. Then they flat out copied it just 12 weeks later? That's nuts!
And you're surprised?
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@dashrender said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
@scottalanmiller said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
@dbeato said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
@scottalanmiller said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
@dbeato said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
I believe you posted this on SpiceWorks and while I use it for troubleshooting purposes there is an update on the way the system is going to work in the future in which it will use Network Agents while rigth the product as is will not have further updates.
What did I miss? They are discontinuing the product? I know that it stalled for a year or more, but they are just giving up and straight up copying Sodium?
They always had agents for inventory so that hasn’t changed rather the focus is on it instead of just an option.
They didn't always have them, they were added much later and were never considered very important.
Wow, they totaly did that three months after Sodium started, it really is them copying the SS design! SS had always worried that it would look too close to SW and did cloud and agents specifically to be as different as possible. Then they flat out copied it just 12 weeks later? That's nuts!
And you're surprised?
A little. Not so much that they were willing to copy, but that it took year after year of us saying what we wanted, finally giving up and building what we wanted ourselves, and only then being copies once they couldn't claim to not be copying. Odd to wait so long and then have one product be abandoned and the only one left to be a clear copycat of a competitor that tried to get them to do it right all along.
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@scottalanmiller said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
@dbeato said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
@scottalanmiller said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
@dbeato said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
I believe you posted this on SpiceWorks and while I use it for troubleshooting purposes there is an update on the way the system is going to work in the future in which it will use Network Agents while rigth the product as is will not have further updates.
What did I miss? They are discontinuing the product? I know that it stalled for a year or more, but they are just giving up and straight up copying Sodium?
They always had agents for inventory so that hasn’t changed rather the focus is on it instead of just an option.
They didn't always have them, they were added much later and were never considered very important.
Wow, they totaly did that three months after Sodium started, it really is them copying the SS design! SS had always worried that it would look too close to SW and did cloud and agents specifically to be as different as possible. Then they flat out copied it just 12 weeks later? That's nuts!
I have been in the community a little more than a yer while being there Network Monitor has never and doesn’t have agents. I have used Network Monitor since 2014/2015. Again Inventory did this even back in 2014-2015, so I know that for a fact.While the timing of the update and Sodium suite are close, has nothing to do with SodiumSuite as Network Monitor doesn’t give you any data regarding programs installed or hardware documentation, it only has predetermined checks of Storage, networking, IO, CPU, and network switch/firewall monitoring via SNMP with online/offline check on sites. Also network monitor has never been integrated with inventory/helpdesk.
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@scottalanmiller said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
@dashrender said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
@scottalanmiller said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
@dbeato said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
@scottalanmiller said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
@dbeato said in Any suggestions for a good and free SNMP server similar to the Spiceworks Network Monitor?:
I believe you posted this on SpiceWorks and while I use it for troubleshooting purposes there is an update on the way the system is going to work in the future in which it will use Network Agents while rigth the product as is will not have further updates.
What did I miss? They are discontinuing the product? I know that it stalled for a year or more, but they are just giving up and straight up copying Sodium?
They always had agents for inventory so that hasn’t changed rather the focus is on it instead of just an option.
They didn't always have them, they were added much later and were never considered very important.
Wow, they totaly did that three months after Sodium started, it really is them copying the SS design! SS had always worried that it would look too close to SW and did cloud and agents specifically to be as different as possible. Then they flat out copied it just 12 weeks later? That's nuts!
And you're surprised?
A little. Not so much that they were willing to copy, but that it took year after year of us saying what we wanted, finally giving up and building what we wanted ourselves, and only then being copies once they couldn't claim to not be copying. Odd to wait so long and then have one product be abandoned and the only one left to be a clear copycat of a competitor that tried to get them to do it right all along.
Network monitor doesn’t deploy anything as SodiumSuite and plus inventory doesn’t deploy or maintain your devices updated. There are many things that SodiumSuite Can do that Inventory cannot do and viceversa. While we can argue the timing, SodiumSuite is not the first groundbreaking in that arena.
