On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 5:56 AM, Todd Lemmiksoo <[email protected]> wrote:
> We are experiencing some disconnects from our TS farm to a Oracle DB server.
> Our CEO contracted with an outside firm that had done work for the company,
> before my time here, to do a network assessment of the traffic. The company
> installed NMAP on our Exchange server and started a scan. Our firewall saw
> this as an attack and shut down traffic to/from the Exchange server.
> What would have been a better tool for the consultant to use in stead of
> NMAP. Or should they have done a better job of configuring the NMAP scan.

A long-term ping command might prove useful, but to get good longer
term readings on latency, you'll want a tool such as smokeping, which
runs on *nix.

Kurt

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