From: Larry Roberts (groupstudy@american-hero.com)
Date: Sun Jul 25 2004 - 00:18:29 GMT-3
I don't know of any books , however I can recommend a couple of tools that I
have had great success with.
For network utilization you can use
MRTG
http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/
If you want to track latency, be it network response or application response
then
Smokeping
http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/smokeping/
I run both of these on a Fedora Core 2 box that is an average box (P3-900ish
w 512Mb) and I have had no problems whatsoever.
I have used MRTG to monitor upwards of 200 network devices, including PIX's,
VPN Concentrators, Routers,Switches and an occasional Windows box, and it
works flawlessly.
I've seen e-mails from people claiming to monitor several thousand devices
as well, so I would call that pretty scalable.
Smokeping includes tools for measuring network latency, DNS response times,
HTTP server response times and a bunch of other things as well.
If your into paying for your software, I have also had success with
Solarwinds.
http://www.solarwinds.net/
Its just a little pricey for me.
Im sure that your going to get a flood of other products as well.
I may get flamed for saying this, but the only tool I would recommend
staying away from is CiscoWorks. It takes a POWERHOUSE to run, and even then
the java front end is painfully slow.
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Joe
Deleonardo
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 7:51 PM
To: 'group study'
Subject: Network Utilization
Can anyone recommend a good book that would give an over view of tools and
methods for determining & monitoring network utilization.
Thanks in advance.
- Joe
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