RE: [opennms-discuss] Ondoing development

[Byron A. <by...@ea...>]

My company uses NNM as well and I was the one to set it up and up till
just recently maintained it as well therefore I understand what you mean
by the complexity level of NNM.  I have been working on a new
development project where I am using OpenNMS so I now have some
experience with that as well.  They are both very similar but at the
same time very different.  I find OpenNMS a bit easier to work with as
there seem to be less configuration files to work with and they are all
laid out in the same manner.  With NNM this is not the case.  However,
NNM provides a lot of tools and diagnostics that OpenNMS does not have.
If I were you I would use OpenNMS for a while to see if it is what you
are looking for before getting rid of NNM.  Hope this helps.


-----Original Message-----
From: ope...@li...
[mailto:ope...@li...] On Behalf Of John
Neiberger
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 1:16 PM
To: ope...@li...
Subject: [opennms-discuss] Ondoing development

Hello all. Newby here, so please forgive any ignorance on my part.

I believe I saw on the opennms site that v1.0 came out in 2002 and
we're now on v1.02 (stable). That seems to me that there isn't much
ongoing development occurring with the software. Is that really the
case, or am I reading too much into the version numbers as an indicator
of progress?

Right now, I'm pondering replacing our installation of Network Node
Manager with something else and OpenNMS is one of the obvious
candidates. It seems to do what I want it to do but I'm concerned about
ease of use. If I were to say that on a scale 1-10, NNM is a 7 as far as
complexity or difficulty to install, configure, and maintain, how would
you rate OpenNMS? It appears to be a little less user-friendly than NNM,
and I wouldn't call NNM user-friendly!

Then again, it just appears that you need a slightly different
skillset. For example, experience with XML seems required and I know
nearly nothing about it, but that could be fixed rather quickly.

Any thoughts?

Many thanks,
John
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