Monitoring Tool

[sparctacus at gmail.com (Bryan Irvine)]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Thorsten Dahm <t.dahm at resolution.de> wrote:
> Joshua William Klubi wrote:
>>
>> I have been tasked to develop a good network for a Bank and i have also
>> been
>> tasked to get a good monitoring tool for the Bank's local network and
>> Service providers network. i would like to ask the community
>> to help recommend the best tool out there that can help me do this
>
> As others pointed out, without additional information it is hard to give you
> any recommendation.
>
> The usual suspects in the open source world would be nagios, cacti, mrtg,
> netflow, ... in case you want to have something to check it out.
>

I like Zenoss.  It's like nagios and cacti.  It also does syslog, and
the enterprise version does netflows as well.