Open Source Network & Systems Monitoring survey results
Zenoss published the LISA 06 Survey Results on Open Source Network & Systems Monitoring:
The survey results included responses from over 100 LISA attendees both on paper surveys and via an electronic survey mechanism. Surveys were offered in the Zenoss exhibition booth, at the LISA Birds of a Feather Session: "Solving IT Management Headaches with Open Source Software ".
My main takeaways of this survey are:
- Most pressing issues faced by administrators are monitoring, configuration, Patching & provisioning.
- 65 % of the respondents plan to use OSS tools in the monitoring space and 36% for configuration.
- the most popular tools are Nagios, MRTG/RRDTool, Snort and Nessus, of which none are for configuration management.
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Re: Open Source Network & Systems Monitoring survey results
What I find interesting is that the people here have pretty small estates. From the figures in the report, 78.8% have 500 or fewer network devices, and only 8 to 14% manage estates which include more than 1000 servers of one platform type. Unfortunately the breakdown does not include total numbers of servers, but my conclusion would be that the survey is really about small to medium sized organizations.
I suspect that large enterprises have a different set of priorities; it would be great to see survey data to confirm this.
I suspect that large enterprises have a different set of priorities; it would be great to see survey data to confirm this.