From: john matijevic (john.matijevic@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jun 24 2005 - 12:04:58 GMT-3
Thanks for the feedback, im looking at a simple solution, with not any
programming or unix involved, something that will run easily on windows.
sincerely,
John
On 6/24/05, Lee Carter <l2carter@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I typically use (for smaller companies)
>
> Cacti at centeral site to get a snapshot of all sites
> and their utalization.
>
> If a site is high on bandwidth utalization and I need
> more info I deploy a small linux box running ntop
> (http://www.ntop.org/ntop.html) and that tells me the
> utalization by user and by application in a graphical
> format. I will also install IPTraff which is a great
> CLI utility for seeing top talkers in a text based
> format. Real handy if you are SSH'ing into the remote
> linux box and wanting to do sniffer traces or advanced
> troublehsooting. (Just remember to deny SSH to the
> local linux box as you will always look like the top
> talker. (or possibly come in on a second interface..
> really depends on your topology.
>
> Other than that you may want to consider for your
> centeral site a local TFTP Server, Syslog Server
> (Syslog-NG), Radius for centeralized authentication,
> NTP Server and running Expect or some other
> interactive programming language so that you can run
> ad-hoc scripts on all your routers to change banners,
> passwords... ect automatically.
>
> HTH
>
> Lee
>
>
> --- john matijevic <john.matijevic@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello Team,
> > I have evaluated the following products already:
> > mrtg
> > cacti
> > ciscoworks
> > Does anyone know of any other bandwidth
> > utilization programs, that they
> > prefer over others?
> > Sincerely,
> >
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