Global Operations Center Engineer at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees
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2021-01-01T10:57:58Z
Jan 1, 2021
We’ve switched from Solarwinds to Centreon even before the issue occurred. It’s way cheaper and is a good alternative and very flexible to your needs. You can play with it yourself.
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I have used both and have to say my experience with Connectwise was very good. Design for MSP's and when used with IT Glue and My It Process nice, accurate seamless.
The major advantage is an integrated solution which not only monitors the complete IT Infra but also provides complete visibility into the ticket lifecycle for any issues detected via the PINK-Certified InfraonDesk ITSM engine.
From a security standpoint, the tool is OWASP Certified for higher levels of protection against malicious attacks.
Network Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Jan 16, 2021
@reviewer1140534 What experience do you have with this tool? I'm looking for NCM alternative for a medium size network (3000 network devices like routers and switches)
The hackers targeted SolarWinds because SolarWinds has many customers. To minimize the risk of being hacked through one of your vendors, this suggests choosing unpopular vendors with few customers. Which is completely irrational.
Summary - this is a really hard problem and switching vendors does nothing to reduce your risk of this type of hack.
@Bernd Harzog I agree that protecting a supply chain is key in any type of manufacturing (and I include software development in that). Massive investment such as Jim suggests needs to be balanced against business, reputational and financial risk. Whilst it is wrong to "sacrifice the boat for a penny of tar" it is equally wrong to protect a penny of tar with a nuclear warhead. A balance must be made. I'm sure Solarwinds (e.g. Centreon) and others are now feeling the effects of that assessment.May I respectfully suggest that if there was some sort of midway solution whereby certain security sensitive components of proprietary software are made open source then the entire industry benefits.
Having source code available to the widest possible audience for analysis and review tends to reduce the security risk of such software. We only need to look at vast swathes of Linux and Apache projects to see the effect.
I'm not some sort of Linux evangelist, just someone who believes that "Security through obscurity" is doomed to eternal failure.
Hello Peers,
I am looking for the best network monitoring software.
Which product would you choose: Nagios XI, PRTG Network Monitor, or SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor? What are the pros and cons of the solution?
Thank you for your help.
Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Dec 7, 2022
Hi, Please share your complete monitoring requirement along with No. of devices for monitoring with their type ( Unix/Linux Server, Web Server, Routers etc..)
Hi community,
I work as the Regional Manager at a Tech Services company.
Currently, I'm exploring open-source Network Analyzer and Network Configuration managers.
Which one would you recommend and why?
Hello,
For Network Analyzer, you can use Elastiflow. It's pretty complete even though its development has stopped lately (we have recently deployed it in production for a customer). It is still just as good as it was a few years ago.
For Network Configuration Management, it really depends on the sets of features you're looking for. But, you can use the Ansible & Gitlab combo. We've written a full tutorial for it on our website: https://www.zen-networks.io/ne...
Good luck!
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Collecting as many metrics, statuses, and logs about the servers is indeed the first step, you never know what data you will need to solve a particular problem. The second step is to process and correctly pinpoint where the network performance/behavior differs from the expected range/baseline.
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We’ve switched from Solarwinds to Centreon even before the issue occurred. It’s way cheaper and is a good alternative and very flexible to your needs. You can play with it yourself.
Thousand Eyes acquired by Cisco, interesting synergies with AppDynamics APM.
Riverbed is also a great solution very easy to install and a great dashboard.
I have used both and have to say my experience with Connectwise was very good. Design for MSP's and when used with IT Glue and My It Process nice, accurate seamless.
Please check out InfraonIMS from EverestIMS Technologies.
(https://www.everestims.com/inf...)
The major advantage is an integrated solution which not only monitors the complete IT Infra but also provides complete visibility into the ticket lifecycle for any issues detected via the PINK-Certified InfraonDesk ITSM engine.
From a security standpoint, the tool is OWASP Certified for higher levels of protection against malicious attacks.
@reviewer1140534 What experience do you have with this tool? I'm looking for NCM alternative for a medium size network (3000 network devices like routers and switches)
The hackers targeted SolarWinds because SolarWinds has many customers. To minimize the risk of being hacked through one of your vendors, this suggests choosing unpopular vendors with few customers. Which is completely irrational.
Summary - this is a really hard problem and switching vendors does nothing to reduce your risk of this type of hack.
@Bernd Harzog I agree that protecting a supply chain is key in any type of manufacturing (and I include software development in that). Massive investment such as Jim suggests needs to be balanced against business, reputational and financial risk. Whilst it is wrong to "sacrifice the boat for a penny of tar" it is equally wrong to protect a penny of tar with a nuclear warhead. A balance must be made. I'm sure Solarwinds (e.g. Centreon) and others are now feeling the effects of that assessment.May I respectfully suggest that if there was some sort of midway solution whereby certain security sensitive components of proprietary software are made open source then the entire industry benefits.
Having source code available to the widest possible audience for analysis and review tends to reduce the security risk of such software. We only need to look at vast swathes of Linux and Apache projects to see the effect.
I'm not some sort of Linux evangelist, just someone who believes that "Security through obscurity" is doomed to eternal failure.
IBM Netcool is a great alterative, also available as a SaaS solution from https://rufusai.com
Hi Henry,
Infosim, Stablenet is a very good alternative.
Regards,
Darryl Theron
@reviewer775476 Hi, I have extensive experience with this solution, I am one of there partners and I am setting it up as an MSP.
All you are talking about are good solutions but what do you think about Zabbix?
Simple integration with a huge base of official and used integrations; open-source and ...for free with global support services.
Any ideas for integrations?
Hi, Yes we moved from Solarwinds to MF NNMi - a good tool if it's implemented in a proper way.
@Hani Khalil : You should definitely try out Infraon IMS.
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