Re: Network Monitoring

Come on i Farrukh,

It was a nightmare for me at one of my BIG client, I was doing the SNMP
traps on the Swtiches and server and IBM Tivoli was doing nothing,

Just showing me in the logs that one snmp traps received : ) hahah

2009/5/9 Farrukh Haroon <farrukhharoon_at_gmail.com>

> I hope you guys heard of SNMP traps :)
>
> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Bill Mckenzie <bmckenzie_at_hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Sure. Say this is a trading floor environment with external brokerage
> > firms. If there is latency normally of 20ms and there is an issue that
> > causes that to be 50ms or more for an amount of time, trading information
> > may be invalid and someone could be looking for compensation. Today,
> > Reactive troubleshooting must now be done to figure out what happened and
> > traced back to network, server or application. With the 5 minute
> trending,
> > that is a process that may or may not produce a good answer. They are
> aware
> > of the impact of constant polling on the network.
> >
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> > ________________________
> >
> > On 2009-05-09 08:21:46 -0400 Dale Shaw <dale.shaw_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Perhaps you could elaborate on the "Milliseconds delay can cost money
> > > in this case" aspect, so people fully appreciate the requirement. It's
> > > not as though collecting data every 5 minutes means you lose
> > > visibility of everything that happens in between polling cycles, but
> > > clearly interface stats like bits per second get averaged out.
> > >
> > > Have you considered the impact of such frequent polling, both in terms
> > > of management traffic and managed device performance overhead?
> > >
> > > cheers,
> > > Dale
> > >
> > > On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Bill Mckenzie <bmckenzie_at_hotmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >> The critical needs are ability to scale but just as important, polling
> > in
> > >> 1/5/10 second intervals. Milliseconds delay can cost money in this
> case,
> > so
> > >> it's very important for constant polling.
> > >>
> > >> On 2009-05-09 07:22:22 -0400 Dale Shaw <dale.shaw_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> We use Statseeker in a couple of managed networks --
> > >>> http://www.statseeker.com
> > >>>
> > >>> It does a really good job, scales very well and is super easy to
> > >>> integrate, but data is collected and reported in five minute
> > >>> intervals.
> >
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