Observium Feature分析

最近项目需要一个支持SNMP的Monitoring Software, 于是对比了以下几款软件：

Features	Observium	Spiceworks	ipMonitor
Support SNMP v1/v2c/v3	√	√	√
Show Ports & Port Status	√	√ (Show Interface IP/ Address /Mac /Type /In(Bps)/ Out(Bps)/ Admin Status/ Op Status )	√ (Show Status/Type/rtt/Availability/Coverage/Duration/Enable)
Realtime software updates and fixes	x	√	√
Twice-yearly releases	√	x	x
Number of monitored devices, ports and sensors	Unlimited	Unlimited	Max 50 Monitors
Full autodiscovery of supported devices and metrics	√	√	√
Scan Ip Range	x	√	√
Network mapping through discovery protocols	x	√	√
Grouping devices	x	√	√
Threshold, State and Syslog Alerting	x	√	√
Traffic accounting system	x	x	x
RESTful API	x	x	x
Email Report/Alerts	x	√ (Can Email Report on Schedule)	√
Download & Install	https://docs.observium.org/	http://download.canadiancontent.net/Spiceworks.html#	https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/ipmonitor

Spiceworks 偏向于IT 管理软件，ipMonitor 最多这能管理50个ports, 所以Observium是比较好的SNMP Monitoring Software.

于是对Observium的功能总结如下，供参考：

Menu	Sub Menu/Tab	Features	Details	Remarks
Dashboards	Default Dashboard	Map Alert Table Alert Boxes Alert Log Graph Traffic Composition Status Summary Status Table(Old) Status Boxes(Old) Syslog Eventlog	Configurable	1. The dashboard provides a configurable, dynamic front page for Observium. 2. You can Move, Delete or Reload a widget by using the controls which appear when you hover over a widget in editing mode. 3. Widgets can be resized by using the resize handles which appear at the bottom left and bottom right corners of the widget when it is hovered over. 4. Widgets automatically update their data periodically. 5. The placement and order of modules on the front page is defined by a config.php variable. The default includes some useful modules : $config['frontpage']['order'] = array('status_summary', 'map',                                       'device_status_boxes', 'device_status',                                       'eventlog');
	Create Dashboard	Status Summary Alert Table Alert Boxes Map Status Warning and Notifications
Devices	All Devices	Basic	- Device  - Operating System  - Uptime	1. Observium was designed to auto-discover as much as possible. The auto-discovery process begins by using SNMP to gather information about a device. This information allows Observium to discover all the internal sensors and interfaces of this device. All of these items are required for auto-discovery to work correctly: SNMP must be enabled on your devices and be reachable by Observium    - SNMP settings on your devices must match what you have configured in config.php    - Access control lists (ACL) on the device must permit the IP of Observium    - Devices must return valid, resolvable sysNames. If the sysName    - reported by a device is not resolvable, the device won't be added. There are several ways to correct this: Graph DURATION: Last 6 hour Today Yesterday This Week Last Week This Month Last Month This quarter Last quarter This Year Last Year
		Details	- Device / Location  - Operating System / Hardware Platform  - Uptime / sysName
		Status	Device / Location
		Graphs	Device Avaliability - Traffic (Rx/Tx) - IP Statistics IP Fragmentation Statistics SNMp Packets   -In   -Out SNMP Statistics   -InTraps   -InTotalReqVars   -InTotalSetVars   -OutTraps   -OutGetResponses   -OutSetRequests TCP Established Connections TCP Segments TCP Statistics UDP Datagram Ping Response SNMP Response Poller Duration Poller Mysql OPerations Plller Memory Usage Poller SNMP Requests Poller SNMP Errors Poller SNMP Errors Time Poller SNMP Times Device Uptime
	Add Device/Delete Device		Hostname Skip PING Protocol Version( v1/v2c/v3) Transport(udp/udp6/tcp/tcp6) Port Timeout Retries Ignore existing RRDs SNMP Community SNMP Context
Locations				Network mapping through discovery protocols
All Ports	Port List	Device Port Traffic Traffic % Packets Speed MAC Address
	Graphs/Aggregation Graphs	Bits	In Out
		Ucast Pkts	In Out
		UN Pkts	Broadcast Multicase
		Packet Sizze	In Out
		Pecentage	In Out
		Errors	Errors Discard
		Discards	In Out
		Ethernet Errors
		FDB Count
Alerting	Creating Alert Checkers			1. First of all when you create an alert, you need to choose the 'entity' type that you are building the alert for. Examples of entity types include Port, Device and Sensor. 2. Once you picked the entity type, there's a couple of more things that need to be filled in but these are simple, pick a name for the alert, and pick a message you want to be included once an alert is sent out. 3. The associations pane allows you to define an initial set of rules to match entities to your checker.
	Alert Loging
	Syslog Alerting			1. Syslog alerting allows you to generate notifications from syslog messages that are produced by your devices. This allows notification of potential issues which aren't easily detected during the regular poller process, such as OSPF changes, duplicate IP and MAC addresses and configuration changes. 2. Syslog alerting in Observium integrates with the existing contact system, so it allows you to notify via the usual channels, E-mail, ,XMPP, etc.
	Syslog Rules			1. Syslog Rules are built using standard PCRE regular expressions. 2  A simple rule to match the word "duplicate" anywhere in the syslog message would look like: /duplicate/
	Notification Transports	E-mail Telegram XMPP devnull External Program		1. By default Observium will attempt to email alerts to the sysContact retrieved from the device via SNMP. If a default email contact has been configured, this will be used for all devices instead. 2.  Telegram is a messaging application available for many platforms including iOS, Android, Windows, MacOS and Linux. To use it as a notification transport you need a Telegram account, Telegram Bot and (optional) Group, where this Bot and Account have been added.
Users	Add Users		Username Password Real Name User Level   -Administrator   -Global Secure Read / Limited Write   -Global Secure Read   -Global Read   - Normal User   - Normal User   - Disabled
	Edit users
	Authlog		Date Use From User-Agent Action
	My Profile	User Information Change Password The last 10 login attempts
Global MIB Configuration				This page allows you to globally disable individual MIBs. This configuration disables all discovery and polling using this MIB.
Polling Information	Poller Wrapper History Per-Device Per_Moudle	Graphs	Graph Info: - Devices - Threads - Wrapper Processes	Graph DURATION: Last 6 hour Today Yesterday This Week Last Week This Month Last Month This quarter Last quarter This Year Last Year
Customers		Customer Device Interface Speed Circuit Notes
Status BreakDown	Errors
	Shutdown
Health	Processors
	Memory
	Storage