OpenNMS Notes

(8:41:50 AM) lmbc2: I am interested in deploying an opennms setup to monitor 50-100 network devices (routers, switches, etc) and I want to use a hosting company to do this
(8:42:02 AM) lmbc2: anyone have any experience with this?
(8:42:24 AM) lmbc2: I was looking at Slicehost or Westhost but am open to other providers
(8:43:26 AM) markw78: what do you mean by a hosting company
(8:43:36 AM) markw78: you want to host opennms on the internet to monitor public network devices?
(8:48:45 AM) lmbc2: yes
(8:49:34 AM) RangerRick: lmbc2: some folks have run it on an ec2 host, so I don't see why not :)
(8:49:56 AM) RangerRick: as long as there are no firewalls or anything preventing machines from said hosting company from monitoring whatever it is you want to monitor
(8:51:16 AM) lmbc2: all of the machines are publicly accessible and we'd allow SNMP/ICMP from the static public IP for our VPS at the hosting company
(8:51:30 AM) RangerRick: then I don't see why not
(8:51:39 AM) lmbc2: cool
(8:53:09 AM) lmbc2: thanks for the help!
(8:53:10 AM) lmbc2: I haven't been able to find any documentation on anyone who has implemented opennms on any hosting platforms. Do you know of any and what platforms?
(8:55:28 AM) RangerRick: I know it's worked on ec2, and we also ran it on a hosted box at newedge networks
(8:55:52 AM) RangerRick: honestly, as long as you have a "real" system with java and root access, it shouldn't matter in any way that it's at a hosting company
(9:00:12 AM) lmbc2: ok
(9:00:21 AM) lmbc2: that makes sense
(9:00:26 AM) lmbc2: thanks for the help