Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 11:55:42 -0800 From: "Craig Burgess" <craig@CheetahUSA.net> To: "questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: NOC-type WAN monitoring tools Message-ID: <JMEJIDBCLMMNOALABHFFGEAOCPAA.craig@CheetahUSA.net>
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A NOC (Network Operations Center) typically monitors the status of leased lines, routers & such. (They're probably also typically well-funded.) I need to be able to monitor the status of several discreet LANs which provide "fixed wireless" service to their respective broadcast umbrellas. Some of the hardware is SNMP-capable. I've looked at some of the network monitoring tools in the ports net directory but they seem mostly to be designed either to monitor activity within a LAN or log attempts to compromise a system from the outside. One monitoring tool which is used is "HP OpenView" about which I've only heard, never seen. I'm guessing it's expensive and more than I need. I've also looked at SolarWinds network monitoring tools which approach what I think I want; it runs as an application on a Windows machine. Is anybody aware of tools which can continually monitor the status of network components as I've tried to describe? (I recall reading that simply using 'ping' is not a wise choice.) Commercial software is an option but at the moment I have very limited resources. I am running FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE on an Alpha (Apache, sendmail & natd gateway) and have a surprisingly slow PPro running 4.5-RELEASE. thanks, craig To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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