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devmon or mrtg which is good for network devices monitoring

list Buchan Milne
Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:56:47 +0100
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On Monday, 18 October 2010 18:18:03 Epp, Matthew Mr CTR USA USA wrote:
Daniel J McDonald wrote:
On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 20:56 +0530, rigved sharma wrote:
Hi,
sorry for the earlier mail..i want to know which one is good for xymon
for network devices monitoring..devmon/mrtg.
Please help.
It's a religious question.  I use mrtg because it supports snmp-v3, I
already have my templates built, and I can live with the hack that is
bb-mrtg.pl.  Other people like devmon, but I haven't been able to test
it because of the snmp-v3 issue.
I use devmon for some device polling, although it takes some time writing
templates for devices.
For the equivalent of mrtg, you can more or less copy an existing template. 
The template complexity comes in when you want to do something *more* complex 
than what mrtg does.
Instead of mrtg we use Cacti. It's easier to manage
and most device templates already exist for importing.
Which devices do you need templates for? Have you tried creating templates for 
them in devmon?

Regards,
Buchan