Hi, All the open systems mentioned before are great to use and I have used them all at work. Some were implemented by myself, others were already there. I will recommend using DUDE it's what u really after, excellent monitoring with all the options of high end monitoring tools just depend upon you how much time you will like to spend on setting up basic & extra options
Regards, Ali Khurram Ugl Network administrator It's all about Community On 20/06/2011, at 10:45 PM, Peter Rathlev <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 08:32 -0400, Jeff Kell wrote: >> Are there any good pointers/references to setting up very basic SLA >> monitoring, as well as some recording/reporting package that doesn't >> require large truckloads of cash? > > As for the latter I've found Cacti to be very useful. IP SLA templates > can be found here: > > http://forums.cacti.net/about19542.html > > Setting up the IP SLA probes themselves are IMO quite straightforward. > If you need to manage a large number of probes you do want some kind of > tool to automate creating new ones of course. We currently script it via > crude templates, but we don't have that many. > >> Nothing terribly fancy, and preferably something that can be >> implemented on Catalysts (6500s core/border, various smaller ones in >> distribution). > > As you're probably aware, the 6500 supervisors (and other switches) have > lousy processors. You may not get good results with many IP SLA probes, > especially if they're supposed to measure latency and/or jitter. We use > 2801s instead. > > -- > Peter > > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
