From: keith tokash (ktokash@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Apr 22 2008 - 16:01:24 ART
We're currently dealing with this problem as well. In fact during a recent
meeting with our Cisco peeps I asked an old-school ISP guy what other large
enterprises and ISPs are using (we're actually content + some ISP for other
business units) and he said everyone pretty much rolls their own solution.
We used to use a consulting company that had some home-grown, Cacti-based
bandwidth graphs. They were snakes so we dumped them, but that still left us
needing a BW graph solution. Cacti didn't scale enough, something about not
being able to handle >100 data sources. To fix that and the other crap our
developer thought needed fixing would have taken so much effort that he just
started making something home-grown. While he bangs away on that we set up
MRTG, which is quick and works, but sucks in its own way (like having a 23,000
line config file ... no, I'm not exaggerating).
Hopefully our dev gets re-railed from the stuff he got de-railed to work on
and finishes our long-term solution soon, because he was planning on open
sourcing it, and we would be putting some really groovy features in there,
like dynamic graph generation based on if.Alias tags - prepend "[ LAX1 TR L3
]" to your normal interface description and it would include that particular
interface in any graph you defined that used those tags (LAX1=data center
name, TR=transit, L3=Level3, arbitrary number of tags, configurable values).
After that's working the sky's the limit really. Scan if.Alias nightly to
pull interfaces out after a neteng whacks the port description, add new ones,
move them around, all automagically. Build new graphs with a iTunes "smart
playlist" style interface - "All interfaces with TR and LAX1, but not with
L3". Really the only way I could think of moving forward with a graphing
system without guaranteeing the need for a full-time geek sitting there
fiddling with graph interface config files ... and still making mistakes.
I'll cop to being proud of the idea. :) And this email constitutes prior art
from what I understand, so anyone can run with this, and not do the patent
troll crap where they jack everyone else trying to use it.
As for traps, we have Cisco LMS, but we're not 100% Cisco (and LMS could be
the single most retarded software suite I've used in years) so we're probably
going to throw a FBSD box up with OpenLMS to catch traps.
With a few exceptions, secrecy is deeply incompatible with democracy and with
science.
--Carl Sagan
> From: tvarriale@flamboyaninc.com
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: RE: SNMP Freeware server
> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:04:07 -0500
>
> I would recommend Cacti or Zenoss.
>
> Tony
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> > > anyone can recommend a freeware SNMP server for recieving traps and
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