From: Elliott Reyes (elliottreyes@adelphia.net)
Date: Wed Apr 13 2005 - 23:30:18 GMT-3
Try Aruba
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From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Howard C. Berkowitz
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 7:03 AM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: OT: Network Management Packages
At 6:10 AM -0400 4/13/05, malcolm.price@lanbase.com wrote:
>Guys,
>
>Sorry for the OT, but I was wondering if anyone had any first hand
>experience with Network Management Packages deployed into a pure Cisco
>environment.
>
>Having just deployed a large Metro Ethernet Network within the UK to
>deliver broadband services and video to public sector, I was looking to
>source a good Network Management Package based on Layer 2 ethernet and
>layer 3. Not so much to do configuration, but diagnostics, fault finding,
>to monitor load, util., errors, and general reporting on the performance
>and uptime of links / switches etc. All the WAN Links are BT LES 10/100
>Fibre and are presented as Ethernet between remote sites and are driven by
>3550 Layer 2/3 switches and some 6500's thrown in :).
>
Let me mention a resource for freeware network management tools,
typically used by service providers and researchers:
http://www.caida.org/tools/
While these won't go Cisco-only, they often are quite powerful and
worth examining. You won't have full paid vendor support, but there
is often an active mailing list and archive.
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