Quoting Austad, Jay (austad at marketwatch.com):
> Does anyone have OpenNMS (http://www.opennms.org) running?  

Yes. I also contribute to the project.

> Is it worth it to spend the time installing it?  

Depends on what you want, how many boxes you got, etc.

> How does it compare to Netsaint?

If you just want status check, Netsaint is much easier to setup.

If you want reports, trends, capacity planning, etc. OpenNMS is they way to go.

If you want to limit views and functionality by username, OpenNMS is the way to
go.

If you have a box with 1G+ RAM just laying around OpenNMS is the way to go :-P

I run it internally at Real Time, still not 100% comfortable with it to replace
Netsaint.

> Are there any distros that have it installed by default, like Telemetry
> linux?

None that I know.
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