As our network matures we find the Dude a little lacking in what we need. We are looking at more ability to monitor ping loss and latency; use APIs; and the lack of a SQL engine for the Dude is causing us issues to do what we need. We have around 4000 devices. Any thoughts on what monitoring system we should move to?
I have tried a few other monitoring tools but none of them is as simple to set up and maintain as The Dude. Unfortunately your observations also apply to our network and the limitations that The Dude presents. I have tried:
Argent (extremely capable and also extremely complex to set up and maintain),
Servers Alive (not too bad to set up and maintain but a bit unreliable, alerting was not great, good for servers but lacking in the ability to monitor network equipment, no support for maps - just a dashboard)
Enterasys Netsight (great for monitoring/alerting/managing Enterasys network equipment. Some support for third party network equipment. Does not monitor servers)
A colleague has previously used Nagios for monitoring a large, dispersed organisation. He has good stories to tell about it but apparently it needed a lot of scripting and customisation to get it tailored to what they needed.
We are planning to implement Microsoft SCOM to monitor all of our servers and network infrastructure. The vendor’s promise is that it will take over from what we are now doing with The Dude… I guess we’ll see.
thank you for the information. yes as I have begun trying other systems my realizations that nothing is even coming close to the sleakness of the dude. hats off to mikrotik team for that.