From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 8 12: 3:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chimera.noanet.net (chimera.noanet.net [66.119.192.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A0EA37B435 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 12:03:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from [66.119.205.82] (mks-733.noanet.net [66.119.205.82]) by chimera.noanet.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g28K0jcX056964 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 12:00:45 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1331 Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 12:03:22 -0800 Subject: Re: NOC-type WAN monitoring tools From: Michael Smith To: FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit 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 Hello: I use a fairly standard set of apps (at least I think they are). Netsaint - proactive monitoring and notification of events MRTG (RRD) - graphing of usage and other SNMP stuff (temp, cpu load) snmptrapd - logging SNMP traps to a logfile for PERL parsing Request Tracker (RT) - for Trouble Tickets Mailman - for a Maintenance mailing list. Mike On 3/8/02 11:55 AM, "Craig Burgess" espoused: > 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 > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _ __ ____ ___ _ __ ______ ______ |Michael K. Smith / | / // __ \ / | / | / // ____//_ __/ |Chief IP Engineer / |/ // / / // /| | / |/ // __/ / / |mksmith@noanet.net / /| // /_/ // ___ | / /| // /___ / / |Cell: 206.579.8360 /_/ |_/ \____//_/ |_|/_/ |_//_____/ /_/ |Land: 206.783.3364 |Fax: 866.422.4887 |Pager: 800.696.6021 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- PGP Key: 485A 7807 2DFD CAC7 8E5D F348 4F19 89AC 0ED6 0B72 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message