Switches often have "port mirroring" capabilities. Check your documentation. You might be able to make one port in the switch "see" all of the traffic. Tim
Chris McKeever wrote: >since we are on the topic -- >many of these monitors require the NIC to be in premiscuous mode (and >on a hub) or have all the traffic pass through the box (dual NIC) > >we just upgraded to 3COM 45xx series switches, so I lost the ability >to go promiscuous, and there is too much data to go through the two >NIC (just guessing at that) - > >any one have any suggestions on how to get the functionality? > >thanks > >On 6/9/05, Christopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Morten Nilsen wrote: >> >> >>>Christopher wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>Well, the list is as follows: >>>>- Nagios >>>>- open nms >>>>- big brother >>>>- monit >>>>- NMIS (http://www.sins.com.au/nmis) >>>>- zabbix (http://www.zabbix.com/) >>>> >>>>Also mentioned: >>>>- rrdtool >>>>- cactus >>>>- mrtg >>>> >>>> >>>one more; >>>http://www.linpro.no/projects/munin/ (uses rrdtool for graphs) >>> >>> >>> >>And I just found Zabbix (http://www.zabbix.com). Somebody commented that >>it is much nagios+nagmin (see comment on >>http://screaming-penguin.com/main.php?storyid=2085), but I haven't tried >>it yet. >> >>/Christopher >>_______________________________________________ >>tsl-discuss mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss >> >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
