[PLUG] SNMP FOSS Solutions

[MJang]

On Fri, 2014-07-04 at 12:14 -0700, Chuck Hast wrote:
> Folks,
> Our plant fibre rings use Hirschmann switches, Hirschmann has a tool
> to view the devices and other devices, it allows one to see each piece
> of the network, and if the devices have SNMP enabled it will show many
> of the device attributes if they are part of what SNMP can view.
> 
> The software is about 7 years old, I have called them to find out about
> a update, they really do not know, some say that the old license should
> allow for a update to the present code level others do not. A new license
> is $1500.00 +
> 
> I am trying to figure out if there is a good FOSS solution for SNMP
> monitoring, 

I think the OSS standard is still Nagios, though a couple of people at
work like Icinga. 

Our focus is on monitoring based in MIBs, which I gather is a subset of
what SNMP can view.

Thanks,
Mike