No seriously, if you have the hardware to run the game, slap a copy of windows on your box and play with the rest of us. Seriously don't go crying because your OS isn't supported, your the minority of the minority. A tiny faction of the WOW players. Give it up and use a M$ or Mac OS.
I am a NMS almost full time for a medium scale telco/isp.
IMHO cacti, nagios, JFFNMS, and other 'free' network managment solutions don't do the job. They are too flaky, unstable, and unsuported for large scale industy usage.
your best bet, would be somthing along the lines of a Whats Up Professional, or somthing simliar. The reason being that you get support, and you have somone to call when you have issues. If you'd like to sort thought the open source BS of most of the free NMS's then go for it, but don't expect it to work in a pinch.
For example one of the issues with nagios, is that it uses an enjection queue, and once you get 1,000's of devices in there you can potentially have hours of delay for a notice just because it takes so long to process the queue. Furthermore you have to mess around with text files and the like, and one wrong fuck up and your hosed, your NMS is down till you can find the single typo in a 4,000 line file.
There are other supported comercial (yea thats a scary slash dot work) but still. Going retail is your best bet. Just be prepaired to buy a uber beefy box and spend quite a bit of money, and have a steep learning curve. Or just hire an intern
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No seriously, if you have the hardware to run the game, slap a copy of windows on your box and play with the rest of us. Seriously don't go crying because your OS isn't supported, your the minority of the minority. A tiny faction of the WOW players. Give it up and use a M$ or Mac OS.
I am a NMS almost full time for a medium scale telco/isp. IMHO cacti, nagios, JFFNMS, and other 'free' network managment solutions don't do the job. They are too flaky, unstable, and unsuported for large scale industy usage. your best bet, would be somthing along the lines of a Whats Up Professional, or somthing simliar. The reason being that you get support, and you have somone to call when you have issues. If you'd like to sort thought the open source BS of most of the free NMS's then go for it, but don't expect it to work in a pinch. For example one of the issues with nagios, is that it uses an enjection queue, and once you get 1,000's of devices in there you can potentially have hours of delay for a notice just because it takes so long to process the queue. Furthermore you have to mess around with text files and the like, and one wrong fuck up and your hosed, your NMS is down till you can find the single typo in a 4,000 line file. There are other supported comercial (yea thats a scary slash dot work) but still. Going retail is your best bet. Just be prepaired to buy a uber beefy box and spend quite a bit of money, and have a steep learning curve. Or just hire an intern