13 Aug
2005
13 Aug
'05
4:12 p.m.
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 13:38 +0100, Andy Trevor wrote:
I am after something for a largeish network. Between 10-20 switches.
Will bing cover this ?
Assuming a network of that size is using Managed switches can't you get useful stats via SNMP ?
A decent managed switch should have a better and more granular idea of the network status than most software only tools you could deploy I would have thought.
I used to use a (windows only) 3Com tool to get status reports out of a bank of 3Com superstacks at a previous job, it could even draw a basic diagram telling me what was plugged in where and create alarms when a link was failing/stressed/had lots of collisions etc.