Re: bandwidth utilization products

From: dusth@comcast.net
Date: Fri Jun 24 2005 - 12:55:42 GMT-3


Have you check out netenforcer?dustin

-------------- Original message --------------

> 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 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 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)
> > >
> > >
> > _______________________________________________________________________
> > > Subscription information may be found at:
> > > http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html
> > >
> >
> >
> > __________________________________________________
> > Do You Yahoo!?
> > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
> > http://mail.yahoo.com
> >
>
>
>
> --
> John Matijevic, CCIE #13254
> U.S. Installation Group
> Senior Network Engineer
> 954-969-7160 ext. 1147 (office)
> 305-321-6232 (cell)
>
> _______________________________________________________________________
> Subscription information may be found at:
> http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Wed Jul 06 2005 - 14:43:43 GMT-3