Re: Monitoring a switch
On 01/08/13 20:02, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 8, 2013, at 10:30 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: I'm looking for some software which can monitor a SNMP-enabled switch. Well, it's likely that the switch vendor offers some tools. That can be, I'll have a look into it; however we have different brands: I'd like to start with one, but then extend the analysis to all of them. I was wondering though, if there was some more specific tool which might be faster to setup and would do some magic automatically, like computing the total traffic flowing through, identifying bottlenecks, etc... Sure. What's your budget? Something like HP's OpenView (which I just learned was rebranded to HP Network Management Center), or Cisco's LAN Management stuff (evidently also rebranded) do all sorts of nice network discovery and autoconfig, routing/traffic bottleneck analysis, etc. They also cost 5 to 6-digit sums, but if you've got multiple WAN links between data centers to manage, or some complicated VM/cloud architecture, they're probably worth the price. It's not my budget :) ... but I'm sure it's *very very* far from 5-6 digits :( (Of course, if you've just got a meaning one switch to manage, that would be overkill.) Actually we have several switches, some of which are non manageable, but will be upgraded. bye Thanks anyway av. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Monitoring a switch
On Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:30:25 -0600, Andrea Venturoli m...@netfence.it wrote: Hello. I'm looking for some software which can monitor a SNMP-enabled switch. Sure I can use Cacti to monitor bandwidth of every single port... or Nagios to warn me if some port gets some defined amount of traffic for a defined amount of time... I was wondering though, if there was some more specific tool which might be faster to setup and would do some magic automatically, like computing the total traffic flowing through, identifying bottlenecks, etc... Observium might be something worth looking into. They generally want you to run the the latest commit to their svn repo, so I wouldn't recommend the version in ports right now. http://www.observium.org ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Monitoring a switch
Hello. I'm looking for some software which can monitor a SNMP-enabled switch. Sure I can use Cacti to monitor bandwidth of every single port... or Nagios to warn me if some port gets some defined amount of traffic for a defined amount of time... I was wondering though, if there was some more specific tool which might be faster to setup and would do some magic automatically, like computing the total traffic flowing through, identifying bottlenecks, etc... bye Thanks av. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Monitoring a switch
On Jan 8, 2013, at 10:30 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: I'm looking for some software which can monitor a SNMP-enabled switch. Well, it's likely that the switch vendor offers some tools. Sure I can use Cacti to monitor bandwidth of every single port... or Nagios to warn me if some port gets some defined amount of traffic for a defined amount of time... Yes, those are reasonable starting points. I was wondering though, if there was some more specific tool which might be faster to setup and would do some magic automatically, like computing the total traffic flowing through, identifying bottlenecks, etc... Sure. What's your budget? Something like HP's OpenView (which I just learned was rebranded to HP Network Management Center), or Cisco's LAN Management stuff (evidently also rebranded) do all sorts of nice network discovery and autoconfig, routing/traffic bottleneck analysis, etc. They also cost 5 to 6-digit sums, but if you've got multiple WAN links between data centers to manage, or some complicated VM/cloud architecture, they're probably worth the price. (Of course, if you've just got a meaning one switch to manage, that would be overkill.) Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
