Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 14:13:55 -0600 From: "Jay Austad" <austad@marketwatch.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: NOC-type WAN monitoring tools Message-ID: <54180709DD3FE145917BB165AFE7EFA002E0D5F5@mspexch2.office.mktw.net> In-Reply-To: <B8AE590A.4C1E%mksmith@noanet.net>
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An *excellent* tool for network monitoring is Intermapper (http://www.dartware.com). However, it only runs on Macs, and it's not free. But if you have an extra mac, and an extra few hundred bucks, I highly suggest it. It's better than almost everything else I've looked at, and since I had an extra Mac, we bought a copy. It works excellent. I wish there was a tool like this that ran under *bsd or linux... Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Smith [mailto:mksmith@noanet.net] > Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 2:03 PM > To: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Re: NOC-type WAN monitoring tools > > > Hello: > > I use a fairly standard set of apps (at least I think they are). > > Netsaint - proactive monitoring and notification of events > MRTG (RRD) - graphing of usage and other SNMP stuff (temp, cpu load) > snmptrapd - logging SNMP traps to a logfile for PERL parsing > Request Tracker (RT) - for Trouble Tickets > Mailman - for a Maintenance mailing list. > > Mike > > On 3/8/02 11:55 AM, "Craig Burgess" <craig@CheetahUSA.net> espoused: > > > A NOC (Network Operations Center) typically monitors the status of > > leased lines, routers & such. (They're probably also typically > > well-funded.) > > > > I need to be able to monitor the status of several discreet LANs > > which provide "fixed wireless" service to their respective > > broadcast umbrellas. Some of the hardware is SNMP-capable. I've > > looked at some of the network monitoring tools in the ports net > > directory but they seem mostly to be designed either to monitor > > activity within a LAN or log attempts to compromise a system from > > the outside. > > > > One monitoring tool which is used is "HP OpenView" about which I've > > only heard, never seen. I'm guessing it's expensive and more than I > > need. I've also looked at SolarWinds network monitoring tools which > > approach what I think I want; it runs as an application on a > > Windows machine. > > > > Is anybody aware of tools which can continually monitor the status > > of network components as I've tried to describe? (I recall reading > > that simply using 'ping' is not a wise choice.) Commercial software > > is an option but at the moment I have very limited resources. I am > > running FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE on an Alpha (Apache, sendmail & natd > > gateway) and have a surprisingly slow PPro running 4.5-RELEASE. > > > > thanks, > > > > craig > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------ > _ __ ____ ___ _ __ ______ ______ |Michael K. Smith > / | / // __ \ / | / | / // ____//_ __/ |Chief IP Engineer > / |/ // / / // /| | / |/ // __/ / / |mksmith@noanet.net > / /| // /_/ // ___ | / /| // /___ / / |Cell: 206.579.8360 > /_/ |_/ \____//_/ |_|/_/ |_//_____/ /_/ |Land: 206.783.3364 > |Fax: 866.422.4887 > |Pager: 800.696.6021 > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------ > PGP Key: 485A 7807 2DFD CAC7 8E5D F348 4F19 89AC 0ED6 0B72 > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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