1. Are there any reporting/analysis functions in the subscription version? Our CIO is interested in measuring 95% on all of our regional office site links in order to analyze capacity planning.
Adam might have a different answer. There are the metrics that you see. No direct reports. Observium shows many things if your looking at the right info. It captures traffic statistics for port-channels, ports, VLANs, routing, UDP traffic, TCP/IP traffic, errors, etc.
I use Observium to report though. Draw your own analysis. Each page's data can be copy/pasted to Excel. I update my VM list, server list, etc. from Observium.
1. How mature is the alerting in the subscription version? Is it possible to configure alerting based on anything other than a percentage of link speed and interface up/down?
Ports measure more than just link state. Click on one of your interfaces. Notice it tracks traffic, unicast, non-unicast, packet size, utilization, and errors.
It keeps track of current, amperage, temperature, fan speed, memory, CPUs, storage, etc. for other devices. It depends entirely on the MIBs of your hardware and what's available in Observium. I think you can add more MIBs but I haven't done it myself.
1. I have been unable to get any email functionality working in the community version. Is it supposed to work?
That's because it's the legacy system. Last month the alerting system went through like 2-3 updates or something alone. The community version doesn't have the nice alerts. Get the subscription.
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All -
Hello. We are evaluating Observium for our enterprise network metrics and are pretty impressed with the community package. However, before we invest in the subscription version, I have a few questions.
1. Are there any reporting/analysis functions in the subscription version? Our CIO is interested in measuring 95% on all of our regional office site links in order to analyze capacity planning.
2. How mature is the alerting in the subscription version? Is it possible to configure alerting based on anything other than a percentage of link speed and interface up/down?
3. I have been unable to get any email functionality working in the community version. Is it supposed to work?
Thanks in advance!
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