From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 14 11:01:27 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63575EDE for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:01:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from smtp.eutelia.it (mp1-smtp-6.eutelia.it [62.94.10.166]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1A00340 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:01:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ns2.biolchim.it (ip-188-188.sn2.eutelia.it [83.211.188.188]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.eutelia.it (Eutelia) with ESMTP id 855E764289F for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:01:18 +0100 (CET) Received: from soth.ventu (adsl-ull-1-131.41-151.net24.it [151.41.131.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns2.biolchim.it (8.14.6/8.14.6) with ESMTP id r0EB1D4J004304 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:01:14 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from alamar.ventu (alamar.ventu [10.1.2.18]) by soth.ventu (8.14.6/8.14.5) with ESMTP id r0EB146n010219; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:01:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Message-ID: <50F3E570.2040608@netfence.it> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:01:04 +0100 From: Andrea Venturoli User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130110 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Swiger Subject: Re: Monitoring a switch References: <50EC65C1.4050106@netfence.it> <9CA75424-FC26-4729-8379-31F5545C2B09@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <9CA75424-FC26-4729-8379-31F5545C2B09@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.73 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.73 on 10.1.2.13 X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (ns2.biolchim.it [192.168.2.203]); Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:01:14 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:01:27 -0000 On 01/08/13 20:02, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jan 8, 2013, at 10:30 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: >> I'm looking for some software which can monitor a SNMP-enabled switch. > > Well, it's likely that the switch vendor offers some tools. That can be, I'll have a look into it; however we have different brands: I'd like to start with one, but then extend the analysis to all of them. >> I was wondering though, if there was some more specific tool which might be faster to setup and would do some magic automatically, like computing the total traffic flowing through, identifying bottlenecks, etc... > > Sure. What's your budget? > > Something like HP's OpenView (which I just learned was rebranded to "HP Network Management Center"), or Cisco's LAN Management stuff (evidently also rebranded) do all sorts of nice network discovery and autoconfig, routing/traffic bottleneck analysis, etc. They also cost 5 to 6-digit sums, but if you've got multiple WAN links between data centers to manage, or some complicated VM/cloud architecture, they're probably worth the price. It's not "my" budget :) ... but I'm sure it's *very very* far from 5-6 digits :( > (Of course, if you've just got "a" meaning "one" switch to manage, that would be overkill.) Actually we have several switches, some of which are non manageable, but will be upgraded. bye & Thanks anyway av.