From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 8 11:53:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from felix.cheetahusa.net (felix.cheetahusa.net [216.133.11.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CE8337B404 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 11:53:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from falcon (falcon.cheetahusa.net [192.168.10.139]) by felix.cheetahusa.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g28Jr3d12639 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 11:53:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from craig@CheetahUSA.net) From: "Craig Burgess" To: "questions" Subject: NOC-type WAN monitoring tools Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 11:55:42 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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