The dude is cool, our network admin has been playing with it. We all 
have a copy on our machines we mess with too.

I like how it will show you real time bandwidth of a link. Lots of 
information there.

But it must take up a lot of resources to do this to a large 1000 node 
network.

We use Nagios and Cacti. Nagios even has a plug in for Firefox that sits 
on the bottom of the browser.





Jim Patient wrote:
> I'm having a hard time understanding why yawl just wouldn't use the 
> Dude?  It's FREE, it emails me in the event of an anomaly, sends text 
> msgs, monitors/graphs number of hotspot users, bandwidth, outages, 
> traffic on my links, uptime, or just about anything else you want to 
> look at, log, notify you of, login to, upgrade, or have your wife go 
> fix;-) It even has a nice pretty web interface for your level 1 support 
> crew (daughter or son) to look at. 
> 
> I'm interested in finding out what I would gain by running Nagios or 
> Cacti?  From what I see on this thread, it would take both to do the job 
> of just one Dude?
> 
> Jim
> 
> rabbtux rabbtux wrote:
>> I used  the cacti/nagios combo for years, but in Feb I switched to OpenNMS.
>> It was tricky to get setup, and the folks on their IRC were invaluable!  Now
>> it auto scans multiple ip networks and ranges I specify every 4 hours and
>> sends me a txt msg each time I add customers.  For all the normal stuff it
>> runs every 5 minutes and produces graphs for not just ping but 'smoke ping',
>> http, dns, ssh, and other commonly discovered ports.  It also collects a
>> good bit of snmp data and graphs it.  The time invested and IRC questions
>> this last Feb are paying off in a sweet way now.  My system looks at a
>> couple hundred interfaces and a total of about a thousand ports/graphs for
>> the network.  Just My 2 cents worth.
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Adam Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> The Wireless Connections app is actually based on Cricket, not Cacti.
>>> Huge difference there...
>>>
>>> I have released Alvarion templates for the Cacti system. They are
>>> available from the Cacti forums at:
>>> http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=18328
>>>
>>> We also run the Nagios/Cacti combo. I have quite a few years of Nagios
>>> experience behind me if anyone needs some guidance getting things going.
>>> We currently have 631 hosts and 4,382 services being checked every 2
>>> minutes or so on Nagios with average service check latency of 3.06
>>> seconds
>>>
>>> Yea, it's pretty sweet :P
>>>
>>>
>>> Adam Kennedy
>>> Senior Network Administrator
>>> Cyberlink Technologies, Inc.
>>> Phone: 888-293-3693
>>> Fax: 574-855-5761
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>>> Behalf Of John Rock
>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 11:26 PM
>>> To: WISPA General List
>>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Network Monitor
>>>
>>> Check our free application that initiates Cacti graphs and config files
>>> can
>>> easilly be made and/or updated to adapt to about any SNMP device.
>>> All we ask is that you buy all your gear from us...
>>> Kidding of course. The system is a bit dated but we can help adapt it to
>>>
>>> your needs. We also have a free support email list to get your questions
>>>
>>> answered.
>>>
>>> Software:
>>> http://www.wirelessconnections.net/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_
>>> download&gid=23&&Itemid=58<http://www.wirelessconnections.net/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=23&&Itemid=58>
>>>
>>> RTFM:
>>> http://www.wirelessconnections.net/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_
>>> download&gid=22&&Itemid=58<http://www.wirelessconnections.net/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=22&&Itemid=58>
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>>> Copy and paste the entire links if the don't work correctly....
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> John Rock
>>> Wireless Connections
>>> Director of Operations - Senior Engineer
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>>> To: "'WISPA General List'" <[email protected]>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 5:02 PM
>>> Subject: [WISPA] Network Monitor
>>>
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>>>     
>>>> We are looking for Network monitoring software. We have been using
>>>>       
>>> Solar
>>>     
>>>> Winds, but they want another $1400 to upgrade. Any suggestions?
>>>>
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