Looking for a Free Network Monitoring Tool
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This is for someone else asking elsewhere so I'm posting looking for advice. They are looking for a free tool that will talk to switch or router monitoring ports to identify malformed packets and alert when some are received. He is doing a large infrastructure upgrade and wants to know if things start to go badly in a prompt fashion.
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I believe that he wants to run this on Linux. I know that Linux was definitely considered. I am not sure if a Windows tool would be adequate.
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There are N numbers of tools, I prefer below two:
FAN : http://www.fullyautomatednagios.org/
Spiceworks : http://www.spiceworks.com/free-network-monitoring-management-software/Moreover, not sure CACTI meets Admin requirement...
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Yeah I'd recommend Nagios (Network Analyzer) as well, it has a ton of configurable options to monitor everything. FAN appears to be the community edition of Nagios, like Xen and Xen CE.
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@oschaudhary FAN hasn't been updated in years (well 2 years)
https://download.centreon.com/ has a more up-to-date nagios core and centreon front end, moving from one to the other is a @@@@@@@@@@ but its much better supported by the community and has a better update process.
Its missing nMap by default I believe but its easy to add in
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@akp982 said:
@oschaudhary FAN hasn't been updated in years (well 2 years)
https://download.centreon.com/ has a more up-to-date nagios core and centreon front end, moving from one to the other is a @@@@@@@@@@ but its much better supported by the community and has a better update process.
Its missing nMap by default I believe but its easy to add in
I've heard good things about Centreon. In the past I had been using just Nagios Core. Which was nice but needed some add ons to make it wholly usable.
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@coliver I started off using Nagios core but then found FAN which bundled Centreon as the frontend for Nagios which made it nicer to use and gave me a GUI configuration rather.
I think its moved to its own fork of Nagios now though which I'm not sure is a good thing or not.
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I've been meaning to try observium. I actually tried to install it on my C@C server the other night but it was just too slow.
Turn Key Linux has an observium appliance. Might be a good way to just test it.
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@akp982 said:
@oschaudhary FAN hasn't been updated in years (well 2 years)
https://download.centreon.com/ has a more up-to-date nagios core and centreon front end, moving from one to the other is a @@@@@@@@@@ but its much better supported by the community and has a better update process.
Its missing nMap by default I believe but its easy to add in
Whoa! @akp982 is back! Dude haven't seen you around in forever!
