Open Source Network Management Projects
Open Source Network Management Projects
Open source is known as a computer software program that is available for the general public and its source code is also open and available for modification. It is the effort and contribution of developers which continuously working on open-source codes and share their collaborative effort in the open-source community. Any use of an open-source product is to customize the code to fulfill their needs.
Open source projects are available under free of cost support such like most of the open-source projects has forum where a member of forum gives free of cost help. In some open source projects, we also take commercial support. Let's see the best open source network management projects
OpenNMS
OpenNMS is an open-source network management application. It is written in Java language and supported the PostgreSQL database. It can be used for a large number of IP hosts. It provides ICMP monitoring response, monitoring is very easy in OpenNMS. It comes with a web GUI interface but the graphical user interface is not very good. It is supported cross-platform and mobile client is also available for Apple. It provides APIs for bug tracking systems and it has the ability to discover automatically network services.
License: GPL
Zenoss
Zenoss is a very comprehensive open-source network management solution. It can be used in medium and large enterprises. It has a very user-friendly graphical user interface. Its web interface allows the administrators to monitor availability, inventory, configuration, performance, and events. Its comes with agent-less monitoring tools. Zenoss is written in two languages Python and Java. Under one system you can manage the performance, health, configuration, application, and server. It also provides integration features.
Licence: GPL
NetXMS
NetXMS is an open-source independent network management system. It can be run on Windows, Linux, and other Unix variants. It supported different storage databases like MS SQL, IngreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, and SQLite embedded. It provides a flexible access control configuration. NetXMS provide the functions of administration, configuration, and monitoring, It has the ability to organize monitor objects into a hierarchical structure. It provides the features of remote action and centralized remote agent upgrades. It is written in C, C++, and Java languages.
Licence: GPL
Nagios
Nagios is a widely implemented open-source network management solution. The first name of this solution was NetSaint. It supported cross platform. It consists of a simple plugin that allows you to develop your own service checks according to your needs. It also provide the flexibility to remotely run scripts via Nagios Remote Plugin Executor. By using Nagios you can monitor anything like alaram,temprature, etc. It provides the features of data graphing plugins and parallelized service checks.
License: GPL
