Monitoring your network with Observium
Monitoring your network with Observium
Monitoring your network with Observium. Observium is an autodiscovering based network monitoring platform that supports near every operating system like Windows, Linux, BSD and a wide range of network hardware.
Advantages
The easy to configure concept is one of the advantages of this monitoring project.
So it takes very less time to configure and implement it into your web farm.
Most common application monitors already built in.
Supports wide range of OS and hardware.
Intuitive web surface
Observium provides you a clean overview about your operation systems and hardware which is running in your network in the form of historical and performance statistics and syslog captures in a very intuitive way.
Traffic Billing
One more advantage feature is the Traffic Billing function which makes it possible to generate continuously traffic bills for your customer or statistical purposes.
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Project links
If you need some more informations about this project with complete features list,
visit their project page or check out the live demo.
Project page: Link
Live demo at: Link
Plz share the Minimum Hardware requirements at the server for plotting graphs.
Hi Rizwan,
The plotting is done by rrdtool and graphviz. Observium hasn’t released any minimum requirements yet.
That really depends on how many host machines you are going to monitor, how often your poller is going to collect data and your mysql/disk i/o.
But o well you can adjust observium to your hardware requirement by reducing the parallel poller tasks, putting RRDs to RAM-Disk or Memcached e.g if you encountered any bottlenecks.
hey Jules,
thanks for replying, I am newbie so plz don’t mind if i ask unnecessary questions can you plz gudie me abt below mentioned details
– IPSLA MIB support
– QOS/COS support
– Format of files relaed to data of graphs
– VPN/neighbour prefix details
– Status of Routing protocols
-How much of Hardware requirement will be needed for monitoring of about 50
Routers along with 150 L3/L2 switches considering polling time for about 5
min. As an average routers have about 20 ports nd L3 switches with about 40
ports eachs, nd layer switches have 25 ports.
– How actually network discovery works for observium ? I mean do I have
to just enable SNMP with same community and same Snmp version on all my
devices so that observium can discover my whole network and does observium
also show me the whole map for my network ( connectivity b/w my devices)
and most important do i need to make any device as Seed device for my
network ? from which it will automatically penetrate to whole
network…Further more after discovering of my device can i filter those
graphs so that I can only plot useful or main graphs
– Can I also make groups to those graphs I mean is it possible that I
can make a separate tab for my roters and the n separate tab for switches
etc.
Thanks and Regards
Rizwan
It’s hard to tell generally how much Hardware is required for your setup.
Observium comes with autodiscovery feature but has not yet be fully implemented. The easiest way to discover new devices is by enabling a unique community group on all your devices. snmpv3 auth is also possible.
After adding your device you can choose yourself what needs to be ploted and which service should not be tracked.
There are several groups you can attach devices to. Like grouping Loadbalancers, Servers,Network,Firewalls e.g.
I recommend you to check out their demo at: http://demo.observium.org/
There you’ll get an overview about all possibilities.
Greets
Jules
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/588464062/observium-alerting