{"id":8991,"date":"2026-05-25T20:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T20:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?p=8991"},"modified":"2026-05-25T21:17:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:17:30","slug":"snmp-free-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/snmp-free-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"SNMP Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>OpenNMS Meridian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opennms.org\">http:\/\/www.opennms.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nagios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nagios.org\">https:\/\/www.nagios.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two links above look to be free, the ones below are a combination of free and paid tools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>Solar Winds: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarwinds.com\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.solarwinds.com<\/a><\/td><td>Network Performance Monitor<\/td><td>Performance monitoring, automated network device discovery, network alerting, multi-vendor device support<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Paessler: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paessler.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.paessler.com<\/a><\/td><td>PRTG<\/td><td>Logging, bandwidth monitoring, packet sniffing, support for NetFlow Offers both a free version which is limited to 100 monitored interfaces and a paid version which is sold in increments of 500 monitored<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Nagios: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nagios.org\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.nagios.org<\/a><\/td><td>Nagios XI<\/td><td>Real-time event monitoring, performance and capacity planning, configuration wizards, user-specific notification preferences<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Cacti: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cacti.net\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.cacti.net<\/a><\/td><td>Cacti<\/td><td>Open Source product that maintains many of the same features and adds a database to store the logs as opposed to the text logs used by the popular predecessor, MRTG.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>ManageEngine: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manageengine.com\/network-monitoring\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.manageengine.com\/network-monitoring\/<\/a><\/td><td>OpManager<\/td><td>Paid product based on the number of sensors. OpManage touts the ability to monitor both physical and virtual environments including VMWare, Xen, Hyper-V among others.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenNMS Meridian http:\/\/www.opennms.org Nagios https:\/\/www.nagios.org The two links above look to be free, the ones below are a combination of free and paid tools. Solar Winds: www.solarwinds.com Network Performance Monitor Performance monitoring, automated network device discovery, network alerting, multi-vendor device &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/snmp-free-tools\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8991"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8999,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991\/revisions\/8999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}