Re: bandwidth utilization products

From: kevin gannon (kevin@gannons.net)
Date: Fri Jun 24 2005 - 12:18:36 GMT-3


We used about 80 copies of Netwatch in my last job very easy to use.
http://www.crannog-software.com there is a free trial version on the
site.

Regards
Kevin

>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,
>>>
>>>--
>>>John Matijevic, CCIE #13254
>>>U.S. Installation Group
>>>Senior Network Engineer
>>>954-969-7160 ext. 1147 (office)
>>>305-321-6232 (cell)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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