Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 19:22:02 +1000 From: Stanley Hopcroft <Stanley.Hopcroft@IPAustralia.Gov.AU> To: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: StatsScout. Software SNMP Manager and RMON probes based (I think on FreeBSD). Message-ID: <20010711192201.B327@IPAustralia.Gov.AU>
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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, I am writing about a product called StatsScout (http://www.StatsScout.COM), a SNMP 'network manager' and software/headless PC RMON probe product that is based on FreeBSD. The product might interest those managing distributed operations and also those with Large LANS (>= 1000 Nodes). As I seee it the product provides :- 1 (via the probes) top n statistics (top errors, top talkers, top errors etc. Maybe traffic matrix.) 2 High peformance monitoring of *basic* (non customisable) OIDS (restricted to interface goup) together with their consolidation, organisation and archiving. Apparently the performance is achieved by having the SNMP gets and walks done by the kernel. 3 A web interface to the report and config tools (although the config is kept in text files. Phew !). The web interface includes nice drill down facilities. 4 Very fast report production. 5 Device grouping and selection (via the report filters) 6 SLA compliance (the config tool allows the specification of 'business hours') 7 Email (or email to SMS gateway) notification 8 Exception reporting. The product can be used to generate the probes by generating a boot floppy and having the futue probe load its OS and applications automatically (whereupon it perhaps becomes an instant FreeBSD host itself) on boot. The company is Australia and I think the developer is Paul Koch. While it's not free, it is not as outrageously expensive as stuff like OpenView or whatrever Spectrum is called these days. It certainly has far more features and power than the lower cost commercial stuff (Cisco Works 2000 - that number - for Windows for example). I was stunned when they said it was a FreeBSD application. Delighted and suprised. I would be very interested to hear (off list) comments from those who have tried it. Thank you, Yours sincerely. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stanley Hopcroft IP Australia Network Specialist +61 2 6283 3189 +61 2 6281 1353 (FAX) Stanley.Hopcroft@IPAustralia.Gov.AU ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If God had intended Man to Watch TV, He would have given him Rabbit Ears. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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