From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 8 12:14:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.marketwatchmail.com (mail.marketwatchmail.com [206.146.143.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E94437B402 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 12:13:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 4836 invoked from network); 8 Mar 2002 20:59:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jaustadw2k) (206.147.106.71) by mail.marketwatchmail.com with SMTP; 8 Mar 2002 20:59:51 -0000 From: "Jay Austad" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: RE: NOC-type WAN monitoring tools Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 14:13:55 -0600 Message-ID: <54180709DD3FE145917BB165AFE7EFA002E0D5F5@mspexch2.office.mktw.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 An *excellent* tool for network monitoring is Intermapper (http://www.dartware.com). However, it only runs on Macs, and it's not free. But if you have an extra mac, and an extra few hundred bucks, I highly suggest it. It's better than almost everything else I've looked at, and since I had an extra Mac, we bought a copy. It works excellent. I wish there was a tool like this that ran under *bsd or linux... Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Smith [mailto:mksmith@noanet.net] > Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 2:03 PM > To: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Re: NOC-type WAN monitoring tools > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message