From: Erik Amundson
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004
11:21 AM
To: Richard J. Sears; Charlie
Khanna - NextWeb
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Network Monitoring
System - Recommendations?
Not a lot of people seem to be using it,
but at my organization, we just love WhatsUp Gold by IPSwitch.
We first started using it about 4 years ago, when it was a
very simple product that pretty much just did SNMP and ping-polling. Now,
it's a much more advanced system that can do loads of things...
Check it out....www.ipswitch.com
Hi Charlie -
We use JFFNMS here (http://www.jffnms.org/).
We have it monitoring BGP with our 6 backbone providers, all of our T1's
(300 or so), DSL lines, dedicated servers, backing up all of our router
configs, talking to our F5s, pretty much everything you are asking for.
We use it extensively to grab traps and notify my NOC of any problems.
Overall I would say that it is monitoring over 15,000 connections and
pieces of hardware.
We have its bandwidth monitoring and tracking talking directly to our
billing engine and allow our customers the ability to log into it and
view all of their stats as well.
We don't use it to monitor uptime as we utilize different hardware for
that but my guess is that with some minor tweaking it could do that as
well.
Hope this helps.
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 00:01:42 -0700
"Charlie Khanna - NextWeb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi - I was interested in finding out what software applications other ISPs
> are using for network monitoring? For example:
>
>
>
> 1) Overall network health - uptime
reports
>
> 2) Backup router config automatically
>
> 3) Bandwidth reporting (or integration
with an MRTG-type app)
>
> 4) SNMP trap support (BGP/OSPF session
drops - emails out)
>
> 5) Database back end (port info into
or over to other apps)
>
>
>
> I'm just looking for something well rounded for a small ISP. I've
heard
> about OpenNMS and other apps but I'd like to get everyone's feedback.
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> -Charlie
>
>
>
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