From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Nov 23 16:40:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from vinyl.sentex.ca (vinyl.sentex.ca [209.112.4.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19F8A15485 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 16:40:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by vinyl.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA75735; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 19:40:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from ospf-mdt.sentex.net (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id TAA21528; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 19:40:49 -0500 (EST) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: relapz@purefusion.com (relapz) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best Network Monitor Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 00:40:48 GMT Message-ID: <383b33a5.158786963@mail.sentex.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 23 Nov 1999 11:44:19 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.isp you wrote: >Hello, > >I making the arrangements to monitor our servers and was curious what the >'best' freebsd tool would be. I've seen netconsole in use and had a look >at www.netsaint.org, but can't seem to find them in the ports collection. I dont know about the 'best', but you might try big brother... /usr/ports/net/bb It in conjunction with /usr/ports/net/ucd-snmp can cover most of the bases. Another handy one is to use the Threshold facility in /usr/ports/net/mrtg. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message