Open Source Monitoring...finally

This past week I got a new boss, a guy with a pretty diverse background in IT, hands on and at the executive level. Seems like a good guy so far. I was concerned that since I took over as Director of Systems engineering just a month ago and was still getting my arms wrapped around all the different aspects of the job and all the details on systems I wouldn't bee able to give him all the info I wanted. He understood the situation and has been cool when I have told him I needed so time to find the answer to one of his questions.

On the second day he told me something I knew was a sign that the two of us are going to work well together: "I would much rather have all our monitoring tools be Open Source"

YES! I have been trying to get the department away from using the bloated, expensive, hard to configure and not to reliable software they have been using for the last few years to something easier to configure, reliable and open.

I've used nagios, Cacti, MRTG and other open source monitoring tools for years. I just recently started playing around with opennms at home. I can't wait to get these in place and move away from the proprietary crap we are using now. Keep checking here for progress.