Re: Good network monitor prog. ??? [7:75081]
I implemented a solution of What's Up Gold with MRTG integrated into it (it gives the same feel as Cisco Works Network Node Manager). WUG is about $800, and MRTG is free. It was a solid management solution for my former company for about 4 years. --- Nigel Taylor wrote: Steven, There's a great little program on SourceForge that's growing in popularity and IMHO is going to become a great NMS tool. It Integrates Syslog, Tacacs, RRDtool (Performance Graphs), Maps, Traps, TFTP, Autodiscovery, Sound Alerts, AAA, Modular and Extensible.It uses a database backend to store all the data as well (good for trend analysis). The documentation is pretty good and if you have/know how unix it's pretty easy to get up and running. There is also a windoze port for the non-*nix folks. http://sourceforge.net/projects/jffnms/ HTH Nigel -- Original Message - From: John Neiberger To: Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 1:44 PM Subject: Re: Good network monitor prog. ??? [7:75081] Steven Aiello 9/9/03 11:18:51 AM Any one know of a good network monitor prog.? It doesn't have to be free but not to expensive. My budget is nill. Any recomendations? Thanks, Steve Wouldn't it _have_ to be free if your budget is nil? ;-) You might want to check out MRTG and WhatsUp Gold: http://mrtg.hdl.com/mrtg.html http://www.ipswitch.com/products/WhatsUp/index.html HTH, John **Please support GroupStudy by purchasing from the GroupStudy Store: http://shop.groupstudy.com FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html **Please support GroupStudy by purchasing from the GroupStudy Store: http://shop.groupstudy.com FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7i=75178t=75081 -- **Please support GroupStudy by purchasing from the GroupStudy Store: http://shop.groupstudy.com FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html
Re: Good network monitor prog. ??? [7:75081]
www.solarwinds.net Steven Aiello wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Any one know of a good network monitor prog.? It doesn't have to be free but not to expensive. My budget is nill. Any recomendations? Thanks, Steve **Please support GroupStudy by purchasing from the GroupStudy Store: http://shop.groupstudy.com FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7i=75088t=75081 -- **Please support GroupStudy by purchasing from the GroupStudy Store: http://shop.groupstudy.com FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html
Re: Good network monitor prog. ??? [7:75081]
Steven Aiello 9/9/03 11:18:51 AM Any one know of a good network monitor prog.? It doesn't have to be free but not to expensive. My budget is nill. Any recomendations? Thanks, Steve Wouldn't it _have_ to be free if your budget is nil? ;-) You might want to check out MRTG and WhatsUp Gold: http://mrtg.hdl.com/mrtg.html http://www.ipswitch.com/products/WhatsUp/index.html HTH, John Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7i=75089t=75081 -- **Please support GroupStudy by purchasing from the GroupStudy Store: http://shop.groupstudy.com FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html
RE: Good network monitor prog. ??? [7:75081]
Free Trial, $59 to buy. http://www.networkview.com/ -Evan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Neiberger Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 1:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Good network monitor prog. ??? [7:75081] Steven Aiello 9/9/03 11:18:51 AM Any one know of a good network monitor prog.? It doesn't have to be free but not to expensive. My budget is nill. Any recomendations? Thanks, Steve Wouldn't it _have_ to be free if your budget is nil? ;-) You might want to check out MRTG and WhatsUp Gold: http://mrtg.hdl.com/mrtg.html http://www.ipswitch.com/products/WhatsUp/index.html HTH, John **Please support GroupStudy by purchasing from the GroupStudy Store: http://shop.groupstudy.com FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7i=75103t=75081 -- **Please support GroupStudy by purchasing from the GroupStudy Store: http://shop.groupstudy.com FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html
Re: Good network monitor prog. ??? [7:75081]
Steven Aiello wrote in message ... Any one know of a good network monitor prog.? It doesn't have to be free but not to expensive. My budget is nill. Any recomendations? unix-based free / open-source: netsaint, nagios, zabbix, rtg, rt-snmp (ticketing system with snmp hooks), jffnms, cricket, cacti, percival, nocol, nmis, net-snmp, snmptt, sec, et al. of the above, i've used rtg, cricket, cacti, nocol, and net-snmp. most people prefer to use net-snmp libraries along with mysql libraries and build their own interface using perl, python, php and/or javascript on a unix box running apache. this site lists some of the above: http://inet-ops.stealthgeeks.net/software.html unix-based commercial: micromuse netcool (expensive), opsware (expensive), hpov nnm (expensive), open nervecenter (expensive) i've used all of the above except opsware. i can honestly say that hpov nnm is very likely worth the money (including the ecs designer) for snmp traps if you can't afford anything better (e.g. netcool mttrapd or even nervecenter is much better). the best thing about the commercial software is the support and consistency. if you are a serious IT/enterprise organization, you'll want to foot the bill for at least hpov nnm. you will probably want to get cisco syslog messages into your trap infrastructure as well. all of this takes customization, but at least with these products, you are customizing something standard and well-known, with a gui that most operators have seen, or are intuitively geared towards. -dre Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7i=75100t=75081 -- **Please support GroupStudy by purchasing from the GroupStudy Store: http://shop.groupstudy.com FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html
RE: Good network monitor prog. ??? [7:75081]
It might be helpful if you could describe what you want to monitor. For utilization MRTG works well, and it's free, though it's a bit strange to set up the first time through. Also, Solarwinds is pretty inexpensive, and does utilization and other router/switch stats (CPU, memory, errors, etc..) through SNMP. -Original Message- From: Steven Aiello [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 9/9/2003 11:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Good network monitor prog. ??? [7:75081] Any one know of a good network monitor prog.? It doesn't have to be free but not to expensive. My budget is nill. Any recomendations? Thanks, Steve **Please support GroupStudy by purchasing from the GroupStudy Store: http://shop.groupstudy.com FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7i=75114t=75081 -- **Please support GroupStudy by purchasing from the GroupStudy Store: http://shop.groupstudy.com FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html
RE: Good network monitor prog. ??? [7:75081]
Surprise...it depends. If you're looking for something to monitor and graph things like bandwidth, cpu and memory for a couple hundred targets so MRTG is perfect. Since it is Perl based MRTG is available for most platforms. If you also want to monitor up/down status, Windows/Unix/Netware servers and do alerting then something like Servers Alive(http://www.woodstone.nu) is great. It's free for up to 10 targets and the top end version is $179.00USD. This only runs on Windows. Nagios is a great alternative for *nix. -Kevin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Aiello Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 12:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Good network monitor prog. ??? [7:75081] Any one know of a good network monitor prog.? It doesn't have to be free but not to expensive. My budget is nill. Any recomendations? Thanks, Steve **Please support GroupStudy by purchasing from the GroupStudy Store: http://shop.groupstudy.com FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7i=75117t=75081 -- **Please support GroupStudy by purchasing from the GroupStudy Store: http://shop.groupstudy.com FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html
Re: Good network monitor prog. ??? [7:75081]
Steven, There's a great little program on SourceForge that's growing in popularity and IMHO is going to become a great NMS tool. It Integrates Syslog, Tacacs, RRDtool (Performance Graphs), Maps, Traps, TFTP, Autodiscovery, Sound Alerts, AAA, Modular and Extensible.It uses a database backend to store all the data as well (good for trend analysis). The documentation is pretty good and if you have/know how unix it's pretty easy to get up and running. There is also a windoze port for the non-*nix folks. http://sourceforge.net/projects/jffnms/ HTH Nigel -- Original Message - From: John Neiberger To: Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 1:44 PM Subject: Re: Good network monitor prog. ??? [7:75081] Steven Aiello 9/9/03 11:18:51 AM Any one know of a good network monitor prog.? It doesn't have to be free but not to expensive. My budget is nill. Any recomendations? Thanks, Steve Wouldn't it _have_ to be free if your budget is nil? ;-) You might want to check out MRTG and WhatsUp Gold: http://mrtg.hdl.com/mrtg.html http://www.ipswitch.com/products/WhatsUp/index.html HTH, John **Please support GroupStudy by purchasing from the GroupStudy Store: http://shop.groupstudy.com FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7i=75121t=75081 -- **Please support GroupStudy by purchasing from the GroupStudy Store: http://shop.groupstudy.com FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html
