Re: [WISPA] Network Monitoring and Graphing
I run PRTG Traffic Grapher from Paessler (www.paessler.com) and Servers Alive (www.woodstone.nu/salive/) for notification. They both do notification but I started with Servers Alive because it's freeware and it works. Jim Stout LTO Communications, LLC 15701 Henry Andrews Dr Pleasant Hill, MO 64080 (816) 305-1076 - Mobile (816) 497-0033 - Pager - Original Message - From: "Jory Privett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 5:10 PM Subject: [WISPA] Network Monitoring and Graphing I am looking some a software package that does network monitoring and graphing. I have used MRTG for graphing before. I have looked at WhatsUp, JFFNMS and Niagos before. I want to be able to graph traffic on network ports of my routers (Cisco and Mikrotik) and wireless equipment. I also would like it to notify me if a device is down either by email or preferably SMS. Monitoring mail and web servers would be an added plus. I am curious what others use for this type of application, what they like.dislike about it and if they would recommend it to someone else. Thank you, Jory Privett WCCS -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
RE: [WISPA] Network Monitoring and Graphing
We primarily use: Whats Up Gold Premium v11 Solarwinds Orion Cacti Visualpulse For anyone who is looking at monitoring infrastructure and their individual customers, I would strongly suggest taking a look at AdRem NetCrunch. The new version (v11) of WhatsUp Gold has really come around, it's finally mature enough to be put in the same league as Openview, it has lots of new graphing and reporting features. Thanks, Russ Kreigh Network Engineer OnlyInternet.Net Broadband & Wireless Supernova Technologies Office: (800) 363-0989 Direct: (260) 827-2486 Fax:(260) 824-9624 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oibw.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sam Tetherow Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 2:34 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Network Monitoring and Graphing David E. Smith wrote: > Jory Privett wrote: > >> I am looking some a software package that does network monitoring and >> graphing. >> > > WhatsUp will do the monitoring and notifications, but at least the > version I've got doesn't do graphing. (In all fairness, it's an older > version, and MRTG does graphing just fine.) > > Nagios works, but is a royal PITA to set up. > Maybe I just do really simple stuff, or maybe I'm just twisted, but I never found nagios to be all the complicated to setup. Installed from package, edited hosts.cfg and services.cfg and you are good to go. Sam Tetherow Sandhills Wireless > Haven't worked with most of the others you mentioned. > > I'm seriously getting into Mikrotik's "The Dude" software, actually. I > don't think it has an SMS interface, but it can send email (and if > your goal is to get the message to a cell phone, most carriers can > receive email and convert it to a text message). It combines > monitoring and graphing in one really spiffy interface. Oh, and it's > free, which is always an important criterion for WISP operations :D > > David Smith > MVN.net > -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Network Monitoring and Graphing
David E. Smith wrote: Jory Privett wrote: I am looking some a software package that does network monitoring and graphing. WhatsUp will do the monitoring and notifications, but at least the version I've got doesn't do graphing. (In all fairness, it's an older version, and MRTG does graphing just fine.) Nagios works, but is a royal PITA to set up. Maybe I just do really simple stuff, or maybe I'm just twisted, but I never found nagios to be all the complicated to setup. Installed from package, edited hosts.cfg and services.cfg and you are good to go. Sam Tetherow Sandhills Wireless Haven't worked with most of the others you mentioned. I'm seriously getting into Mikrotik's "The Dude" software, actually. I don't think it has an SMS interface, but it can send email (and if your goal is to get the message to a cell phone, most carriers can receive email and convert it to a text message). It combines monitoring and graphing in one really spiffy interface. Oh, and it's free, which is always an important criterion for WISP operations :D David Smith MVN.net -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Network Monitoring and Graphing
Jory Privett wrote: > I am looking some a software package that does network monitoring and > graphing. WhatsUp will do the monitoring and notifications, but at least the version I've got doesn't do graphing. (In all fairness, it's an older version, and MRTG does graphing just fine.) Nagios works, but is a royal PITA to set up. Haven't worked with most of the others you mentioned. I'm seriously getting into Mikrotik's "The Dude" software, actually. I don't think it has an SMS interface, but it can send email (and if your goal is to get the message to a cell phone, most carriers can receive email and convert it to a text message). It combines monitoring and graphing in one really spiffy interface. Oh, and it's free, which is always an important criterion for WISP operations :D David Smith MVN.net -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Network Monitoring and Graphing
What are you using with your netflow data? I've been using nfcapd to store the streams to files and then parsing the data with nfdump and custom scripts. I would like to some other admin's netflow usage. Right now I use it to track bandwidth usage per IP so I can see who is responsible for network spikes and also to get a feel for the heavy bandwidth users. Storing the flow data has come in handy upon occasion when a user calls up and says the network was slow last night and I can pull up their traffic for the time period and let them know that they had P2P running at that time using a chunk of their bandwidth. Sam Tetherow Sandhills Wireless Ryan Langseth wrote: Nagios for notifications and cacti for graphing. I am also looking at a pretty nice oss project called zenoss. It has auto discovery, graphing and notifications. It also does some asset tracking and other features. I have not spent alot of time with it yet, but I did run the auto discovery and catagorize some hard to get the graphs working. Pretty simple web interface. www.zenoss.com They also have a VMWare image, so if you have vmware player or vmware server (both free) setup some where you can have it up and running in 10 minutes to try it out. Also I gather netflow data from my core router, I have not started graphing yet, but I do create some usage reports from the data. Ryan On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 17:10 -0500, Jory Privett wrote: I am looking some a software package that does network monitoring and graphing. I have used MRTG for graphing before. I have looked at WhatsUp, JFFNMS and Niagos before. I want to be able to graph traffic on network ports of my routers (Cisco and Mikrotik) and wireless equipment. I also would like it to notify me if a device is down either by email or preferably SMS. Monitoring mail and web servers would be an added plus. I am curious what others use for this type of application, what they like.dislike about it and if they would recommend it to someone else. Thank you, Jory Privett WCCS -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Network Monitoring and Graphing
We use nagios for alerting and caci for graphing and trending. Let me know if you need help with setup or integration. Mark Jory Privett wrote: I am looking some a software package that does network monitoring and graphing. I have used MRTG for graphing before. I have looked at WhatsUp, JFFNMS and Niagos before. I want to be able to graph traffic on network ports of my routers (Cisco and Mikrotik) and wireless equipment. I also would like it to notify me if a device is down either by email or preferably SMS. Monitoring mail and web servers would be an added plus. I am curious what others use for this type of application, what they like.dislike about it and if they would recommend it to someone else. Thank you, Jory Privett WCCS -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Network Monitoring and Graphing
Nagios for notifications and cacti for graphing. I am also looking at a pretty nice oss project called zenoss. It has auto discovery, graphing and notifications. It also does some asset tracking and other features. I have not spent alot of time with it yet, but I did run the auto discovery and catagorize some hard to get the graphs working. Pretty simple web interface. www.zenoss.com They also have a VMWare image, so if you have vmware player or vmware server (both free) setup some where you can have it up and running in 10 minutes to try it out. Also I gather netflow data from my core router, I have not started graphing yet, but I do create some usage reports from the data. Ryan On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 17:10 -0500, Jory Privett wrote: > I am looking some a software package that does network monitoring and > graphing. I have used MRTG for graphing before. I have looked at > WhatsUp, JFFNMS and Niagos before. I want to be able to graph traffic on > network ports of my routers (Cisco and Mikrotik) and wireless equipment. I > also would like it to notify me if a device is down either by email or > preferably SMS. Monitoring mail and web servers would be an added plus. I > am curious what others use for this type of application, what they > like.dislike about it and if they would recommend it to someone else. > > Thank you, > > Jory Privett > WCCS > -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Network Monitoring and Graphing
I use nagios and cacti for notification and graphing respectively. Both were simple to set up on a debian box via apt-get. Sam Tetherow Sandhills Wireless Jory Privett wrote: I am looking some a software package that does network monitoring and graphing. I have used MRTG for graphing before. I have looked at WhatsUp, JFFNMS and Niagos before. I want to be able to graph traffic on network ports of my routers (Cisco and Mikrotik) and wireless equipment. I also would like it to notify me if a device is down either by email or preferably SMS. Monitoring mail and web servers would be an added plus. I am curious what others use for this type of application, what they like.dislike about it and if they would recommend it to someone else. Thank you, Jory Privett WCCS -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Network Monitoring and Graphing
I've been using zabbix effectively for those purposes. Does a good job, has nice template control, soon is supposed to support auto discovery. Steve -- Jory Privett wrote: > I am looking some a software package that does network monitoring and > graphing. I have used MRTG for graphing before. I have looked at > WhatsUp, JFFNMS and Niagos before. I want to be able to graph traffic > on network ports of my routers (Cisco and Mikrotik) and wireless > equipment. I also would like it to notify me if a device is down > either by email or preferably SMS. Monitoring mail and web servers > would be an added plus. I am curious what others use for this type > of application, what they like.dislike about it and if they would > recommend it to someone else. > > Thank you, > > Jory Privett > WCCS > -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Network Monitoring and Graphing
WhatsUp and JFFNMS both. What'sUp is very quick to notify via SMS (I get the messages within 10 seconds of a host being down). JFF for keeping historical data, etc. Travis Microserv Jory Privett wrote: I am looking some a software package that does network monitoring and graphing. I have used MRTG for graphing before. I have looked at WhatsUp, JFFNMS and Niagos before. I want to be able to graph traffic on network ports of my routers (Cisco and Mikrotik) and wireless equipment. I also would like it to notify me if a device is down either by email or preferably SMS. Monitoring mail and web servers would be an added plus. I am curious what others use for this type of application, what they like.dislike about it and if they would recommend it to someone else. Thank you, Jory Privett WCCS -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Network Monitoring and Graphing
Look at CACTI. It has a steep learning curve, but is open source and there is a ton of help in it's forums. We use it to monitor around 4,000 wireless subscribersincluding access points, switches, routers, mail servers, etc. It also has an alert/notification plug-in available that will monitor set thresholds. I haven't used that feature yet, I must admit. Good luck. -Eric Jory Privett wrote: I am looking some a software package that does network monitoring and graphing. I have used MRTG for graphing before. I have looked at WhatsUp, JFFNMS and Niagos before. I want to be able to graph traffic on network ports of my routers (Cisco and Mikrotik) and wireless equipment. I also would like it to notify me if a device is down either by email or preferably SMS. Monitoring mail and web servers would be an added plus. I am curious what others use for this type of application, what they like.dislike about it and if they would recommend it to someone else. Thank you, Jory Privett WCCS -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
