John,
When you consider how complex it is to "write software" its not something you can take up gradually. A Google fellow ALL OF 32, estimates in his lifetime he has spent 50,000 hours writing software. I'm guessing that is 20 years, perhaps 60 hours a week (since he was a kid), as a "year" only has 8,760 hours.
And even Google the other day had massive gmail outage that CNBC reported during their telecast despite 1000's of pro's like him on staff tasked with their "software".
It's not some nothing you take up in your spare time and have much luck at it, imho.
If the cursory graphs and checks (which are pretty nice) in Observium are not enough, I recommend brining in IBM netcool or HP Openview teams like many major ISP's (Level3, ATT) have had to do. Of course, these consultants rate's start at $250/hour in my experience and not $100 a year like Observium :)
In our similar operation to your own, ran on behalf of private low latency trading firms between NY and CHICAGO, with extremely secretive, precise requirements - we monitor the "overall" network with Observium to get "a sense" of utilization at 20,000 feet - then drill down with very very precise tools written for each purpose in python, java, bash shells, etc - each with its own backend data storage and reporting scheme from a simple as rrd files, log files, pcap files to as complex as Microsoft sql and couchbase.
In short, I think you are trying to do too much with one tool. You need a "polling style" app for the overview time series, and you need "real-time sensors" that trip and alert in a second or less. We use many variants of both. I call it "monitoring in depth". So even if 3 out of 4 of our tools fail - the 4th one will alert us and the client, often with seconds to "go flat". Imagine you were writing call options in microseconds and you didn't have the current stock price or news about the stock :)
Thanks,
Joe
-----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of John Brown Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2015 05:56 To: observium Subject: [Observium] observium managment should be more professional
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As a provider of internet connectivity (ergo a telco and a ISP) we use licensed microwave and unlicensed microwave technologies to feed our revenue generating customers. We also use fiber, and copper based technologies.
microwave != wifi
We are not alone in using a mix of technologies to deliver bits to customers. T-Mobile, ATT, Sprint, AllTel, Cellular One, Verizon, etc all use microwave (wireless) technologies to deliver bits.
I, like others, have offered to write code, have asked for pointers on how to get started writing code, all appears to have fallen upon deaf ears.
I've offered to PAY others to write code to support our kit, with features we need. No takers.
As a PAID user, I'm quite shocked and disappointed in Adam's childish behaviour.
Users of Observium should be concerned that their continued investment could be a loosing path as more people move AWAY from the product and go support other packages. On two lists that I saw the above URL, not less than 3 dozen people said they where removing observium and not renewing their annual subscriptions. I suspect that will become a trend.
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