Guys,
I am after a little advice.
Which package is best for network performance monitoring ?
I am familiar with MRTG and Cacti. Is there anything better out there, or are these the ones to use?
Andy Trevor wrote:
Guys,
I am after a little advice.
Which package is best for network performance monitoring ?
I am familiar with MRTG and Cacti. Is there anything better out there, or are these the ones to use?
Funnily enough, I have an issue with a slow ADSL line, and am gathering data for the provider. I'm using bing (there's a gentoo package) which seems pretty good. It's pretty small but you need a mirror if you can't find a package for your distro as the homepage is password protected...
Cheers, Laurie.
On Friday 12 August 2005 13:22, Laurie Brown wrote:
Andy Trevor wrote:
Guys,
I am after a little advice.
Which package is best for network performance monitoring ?
I am familiar with MRTG and Cacti. Is there anything better out there, or are these the ones to use?
Funnily enough, I have an issue with a slow ADSL line, and am gathering data for the provider. I'm using bing (there's a gentoo package) which seems pretty good. It's pretty small but you need a mirror if you can't find a package for your distro as the homepage is password protected...
I am after something for a largeish network. Between 10-20 switches.
Will bing cover this ?
Cheers, Laurie.
Andy Trevor wrote:
On Friday 12 August 2005 13:22, Laurie Brown wrote:
Andy Trevor wrote:
Guys,
I am after a little advice.
Which package is best for network performance monitoring ?
I am familiar with MRTG and Cacti. Is there anything better out there, or are these the ones to use?
Funnily enough, I have an issue with a slow ADSL line, and am gathering data for the provider. I'm using bing (there's a gentoo package) which seems pretty good. It's pretty small but you need a mirror if you can't find a package for your distro as the homepage is password protected...
I am after something for a largeish network. Between 10-20 switches.
Will bing cover this ?
Yep, I reckon so..
Cheers, Laurie.
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.
On Saturday 13 August 2005 15:11, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
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 ?
I can get good stats from them. I am looking for a package that is both useful and has a certain amount of "eye candy" appeal.
Eye candy is a good selling point.
As they say "bullshit baffles brains" :)
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.
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