Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 08:14:05 +1100 From: Stanley Hopcroft <Stanley.Hopcroft@IPAustralia.Gov.AU> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: network management Message-ID: <20011215081404.A388@IPAustralia.Gov.AU> In-Reply-To: <ILEALFKFCNJHKDLMPOEOGEHPDIAE.cmeiklejohn@conversent.com>; from cmeiklejohn@conversent.com on Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 02:49:50PM -0500 References: <20011214142203.K5086-100000@nts.umd.edu> <ILEALFKFCNJHKDLMPOEOGEHPDIAE.cmeiklejohn@conversent.com>
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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 02:49:50PM -0500, Christopher Meiklejohn wrote: > I have had alot of success with MRTG and NOCOL. > You may want to look at Netsaint (http://www.Netsaint.ORG) rather than NOCOL. AFAIK, Netsaint is . actively developed . easier to write service checks for . supports various approaches for remote and distributed monitoring . has a fair to good story for monitoring M$ boxen. . has I think better logging and availability reporting > I use nocol for the network monitering and mrtg for graphing anything I need > that has a MIB that > supports it! > > I have had alot more success with NOCOL over WhatsUp ( running on Windows, > which we were using before ) becuase WhatsUp just has a very low threshold > for monitering things. NOCOL can handle much much more. > > -=Chris > Netsaint is a FreeBSD package. Thank you, Yours sincerely. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stanley Hopcroft Network Specialist ------------------------------------------------------------------------ '...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...' from Meditation 17, J Donne. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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