[HN Gopher] OpenNMS: Visualize and monitor everything on your lo...
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OpenNMS: Visualize and monitor everything on your local and
distributed networks
Author : teleforce
Score : 71 points
Date : 2024-09-19 15:02 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.opennms.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.opennms.com)
| baq wrote:
| I'd like a proper (but not necessarily professional) network
| monitoring tool for a home network running on a rpi 4 alongside
| home assistant - is that it?
| Narhem wrote:
| Ended up starting to write my own network analysis tool. Most
| of these tools don't fit in with "home lab" type networks.
| Probably should finish it and share it here, might actually fit
| people's use cases.
| unicon wrote:
| Is it somewhere on GitHub/mind sharing a screenshot?
| alwold wrote:
| I'm not sure about this one, but I recently installed LibreNMS
| (an open source nms) on my home network and it does a decent
| job keeping track of traffic on my ubiquiti edgerouter. It uses
| snmp so should work with most routers, I imagine. I
| specifically set it up to tell me when I use more than a
| certain amount of data in a day to avoid data caps. It was a
| bit fiddly to set up, but kind of fun.
| bongodongobob wrote:
| If you want to drop $12k, maybe.
| psim1 wrote:
| Zabbix is a good all-rounder.
| dmd wrote:
| Zabbix is fabulous.
| slamonjam wrote:
| I've heard good things about Uptime Kuma.
| lukan wrote:
| Maybe it looks different on a desktop, but on my mobile the page
| does not show an actual visualisation, which I think would be
| helpful for me to determine its usefulness.
| Carrok wrote:
| "Helps you visualize"
|
| Doesn't have a single screenshot.
| unicon wrote:
| And I thought I was the only one. Thought the same
| godisdad wrote:
| Five clicks in to a visualization tool's website I don't see any
| diagrams or screenshots makes it challenging to want to kick the
| tires on this
| neofrommatrix wrote:
| There's a link to their YouTube channel in documentation. That
| has a few demos, although I did not check them out
| rrrix1 wrote:
| I never understand why people do this. This is a great way to
| lose your prospective leads to cat videos.
| theideaofcoffee wrote:
| Damn, not much has changed since I last looked at the project
| nearly 15 years ago when evaluating it against other management
| packages in an academic computing center. So frustrating to
| have all of the words words words and not a single shot of it
| in action, ya know, like you'd see it when in use.
| cbsmith wrote:
| I don't find the visualizations shown on websites terribly
| convincing, so I kind of get it. Yes, you need to kick the
| tires to understand if it is useful.
| sleepybrett wrote:
| "open"
| rrrix1 wrote:
| As in "Open your wallet"
| deavert wrote:
| It's almost impressive how the current OpenNMS leadership
| manages to miss the point of open source entirely. It's like
| they think "open" just refers to the tabs in their web browser.
| patode wrote:
| They were bought the failing NantHealth, then jettisoned a
| large amount of the talent and now blame being open source for
| failure...
| otterpro wrote:
| I recommend [librenms/librenms: Community-based GPL-licensed
| network monitoring system](https://github.com/librenms/librenms),
| which is Open source and free.
| dsr_ wrote:
| ...and good, too.
|
| In the default mode, all you have to do for configuration is
| tell it the names or IPs of things to monitor and an SNMP
| community string. It scans for every tree that it understands,
| and will rescan occasionally.
| RamRodification wrote:
| Does that mean that it has a library of devices so that it
| knows what SNMP stuff from them means? (I barely know how
| SNMP works).
| PenguinCoder wrote:
| Yes. That's called SNMP MIBs, and LibreNMS has a lot of the
| standard/well known device MIBs to parse out the details.
|
| https://docs.librenms.org/Support/FAQ/#how-does-librenms-
| use...
| unsnap_biceps wrote:
| The pricing page shows the smallest plan is $12,000 a year. Given
| the lack of any screenshots or workflow info, I'm not going to
| reach out to their sales and demo this. It's way too much money
| for a complete unknown.
| JeremyNT wrote:
| It is (or was?) open source. [0]
|
| I know the company behind the OSS project was acquired though,
| and I couldn't speak to how / whether the oss version still
| receives much attention these days.
|
| [0] https://github.com/OpenNMS/opennms
| secabeen wrote:
| Network visualization tools have generally been a solution in
| search of a problem for me. At both work and home, my network is
| very stable and unchanging.
| bongodongobob wrote:
| I think these tools are generally more for alerting and the
| visualization is just a nice to have feature. At least that's
| how I've always used them.
| mypalmike wrote:
| NMS systems are useful for monitoring large networks where
| something is likely to fail due to sheer quantity of
| devices/interfaces. Visualization is secondary to state capture
| and alerting.
| swills wrote:
| Once years ago a coworker set this up with good intentions of
| evaluating it and it ended up setting up a default automation
| which sent SNMP queries to a networked photocopier which
| triggered it to print some diagnostic page repeatedly until it
| ran out of paper overnight while no one was around. Anecdotal,
| but amusing to me and it's still the first thing that comes to
| mind when I see this product.
| TYPE_FASTER wrote:
| Found screenshots of the free version:
| https://www.opennms.com/horizon/#iLightbox[image_carousel_1]...
| AbraKdabra wrote:
| I've been using LibreNMS since 2014 and I even contributed to a
| feature, I can say it's in the top 3 SNMP monitoring tools,
| excellent tool.
| whalesalad wrote:
| Any tool that claims to visualize anything and does not show
| visualizations on the homepage is suspicious. So many product
| pages look like this these days. What does it actually do? What
| does it look like?
| mikeocool wrote:
| This has been on the front page for several hours, and it appears
| to be a $12,000 network visualization tool, but the website fails
| to show any screenshots or really much beyond an enterprise sales
| pitch.
|
| Would someone whose upvoting this mind sharing what is
| interesting or compelling about this? I haven't been able to
| figure it out clicking around the website and 'Visualizing and
| monitoring everything on your local and distributed networks' is
| something kinda up my alley.
| ajsnigrutin wrote:
| Used it once, based on java, worked slow... reminded me of
| other "enterprise systems" of the era, big, clunky, java-based
| and slow.
|
| https://docs.opennms.com/horizon/30/operation/admin/webui/da...
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| here are the screenshots
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| 2/10, would not recommend. I liked zabbix a lot more, but then
| switched to nagios because "everyone else" was using it, and it
| was easier.
| mikeocool wrote:
| Thanks! Though I am still left wondering who is upvoting this
| link.
| BigParm wrote:
| It's an ad dude. The upvotes are just a fugazi.
| ovation1357 wrote:
| I've been managing multiple instances of the free "Horizon"
| version of OpenNMS for nearly 10 years, even contributed a couple
| of bug fixes. It doesn't get much love from coworkers and it's an
| absolute beast to learn but it generally does the job. It's got a
| LOT of bells and whistles including support for all sorts of
| Comms and IT gear. It can be a tad clunky, pretty RAM and I/O
| intensive (Java) and the vast number of XML config files can be
| very daunting for new users. But it largely does what's needed
| including custom detection and status polling of services,
| recieving and processing SNMP traps and polling SNNP metrics. The
| built in graphs are useful but a bit old and ugly however it has
| Grafana integration and one day I'll look into trying that out.
|
| It heavyweight and very "enterprise" - not necessarily going to
| cut it for home or small business use, but if you've got a huge
| sprawl of legacy systems and applications then it might be a
| decent fit for centralised monitoring.
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