[KLUG Members] Open NMS and glowing recommendations.

[Adam Williams]

>>So I went back to OpenNMS, not at release 1.0.
>>...
>>There is my entire network, with event notification, performance graphs, 
>>availability calculations, assett management, etc....
>>Actually it took about 30 minutes to discover everything (during with the 
>>network slowed to a crawl, luckily it was after hours),  but didn't take 
>>more than 10 minutes to install (which is exactly how it should be).
>On a switched network, does it require the monitoring PC be plugged into
>the "network monitoring port"?  (a port that does NOT filter by MAC)

Nope it port scans (more or less) to discover whats on the network.  No
"monitoring port" involved.

>>P.S. You'll need a box with Sun's Java,
>Is that a separate download, or does it come on Redhat, or ...  ?

Separate.  But there is a link in one of the documents to just the right
place at sun.  The package I got is called j2sdk-1.4.0_01-fcs

>>P.P.S. http://www.opennms.org
>> P.P.P.P.S.  When you list the RPMS to install, list the tomcat ones first 
>> or you won't be able to login.
>You mean install the tomcat ones first?

yep, like....

rpm -Uvh rrdtool apt apt-devel tomcat4 tomcat4-manual tomcat4-webapps
opennms opennms-webapp

If your list opennms before tomcat it won't work,  but will happily
install.