English abstract
Networks based on Internet protocol (IP) are widely and rapidly continue to grow. Relying on these networks is rising every day, managing and keeping them running with minimum outage time becomes an extremely challenging task. Minimizing outage time of the network needs non-stop 24/7 monitoring. As a result, dependency on automated network monitoring solutions has increased.
Many computerized network monitoring tools and systems are available, including expensive proprietary/closed-source commercial solutions and Free Open Source software (FOSS) systems. Three of the most popular FOSS network monitoring systems are Nagios, Opennms and Zabbix. They are considered to be solid competitors to the available proprietary solutions. Evaluation discussions about these three FOSS solutions are very common between IT professionals and FOSS communities in the Internet
Methods of this MS research work start with literature review on network monitoring functionalities and the selected FOSS monitoring solutions. Then, explore Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) network and select some study cases, which can be used as a base to evaluate and compare selected FOSS solutions.
The study's main scope is providing evaluation of the selected system, and then proposing one FOSS system which can be used as common monitoring system for SQU network. It can help also to detect any network issues in SQU and suggest solutions.
