On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 11:36 -0500, James M. Cook wrote: > On Thursday 22 December 2005 8:41 am, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Just want to see if anyone has any good info to share.
> I've evaluated all the packages you've listed but had completely forgotten > about ntop (which I'm playing with now, fantastic). With some additional overhead. There is a perl script to export the data to SQL but I've yet to play with it. (but the downside is that it's not supported and thus, I may be knocking on a dead door when I see trouble) > I'm not sure any of them > are going to give you what you want. Can't have my cake and eat it too? :-( > I didn't see any information about Traffic Flow Analysis on argus' website, > do > you have that URL? It should be on argus' website. I'm sure it's not a figment of my imagination. > opennms - nice, but uses tomcat since it's java based. Seemed to generate the > heaviest load on the server. Not knowing a whole lot about tomcat and using > tomcat4, which is not available in portage, made setup a little tricky for > me. Didn't see any graphing capabilities either. You actually installed it? I know of one company exinda (IIRC) that uses java for it's traffic analysis. Not only is it slow, it's also unable to do the stuffs I want. > jffnms - this was my choice for a while. Then I tried to add a new OID and > couldn't figure it out. I found the montoring interface was good but Based on list archives, it used to be in portage, but it was taken out. > > argus - this is my new choice. I like the simple web interface and the > configuration is pretty straightforward. I'm actually creating a script to > convert my old monitoring sw config to argus. Working at an ASP requires > monitoring website performance which appears to be the most straightforward > with argus. The graphs aren't as good as some other packages. Again, argus doesn't support putting data into a SQL table. > zabbix - midas - cacti with the threshold plugin. I tried cacti before, but since I wasn't able to get SNMP to work with my NIC (I tried it out on a laptop) I just gave up. > > It seems to me that none of these packages are perfect fits. Ditto > My main issue is there is not web interface to > update the config which is available in most of the others. This should only > become an issue when I start to have others maintain the system. :) That's why there's those 4am calls for manual intervention. I'll be frank, what I want is for a way to determine top talkers and then use that data (with the IP) and then use TC (traffic control) rules to restrict/handicap it's bandwidth. Right now, what I'm doing is manual control and I can't keep up with the 4am nights just to restrict some IPs. Do you have any comment/info on how/what's best to do those? Do you also know if the way ntop stores it's data, does it also store the IP addreses in the RRD Database as well? What I need is to just get the top talkers and that would be great. Whipping up a perl/shell script via cron to do the dirty work for me. Thanks -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 10:12:28 up 1 day, 54 min, 4 users, load average: 1.15, 0.77, 1.66 -- [email protected] mailing list
