Re: Network Monitoring

From: Steve McNamara <steve.mcnamara_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 19:21:46 +0100

The Corvil CNE range will also do what you are looking for. We are
using the CNE5000's for latency management of sub 1ms 10Gig DWDM links
with line rate capture. They are granular to the microsecond level
also and very accurate. Again, very expensive...

Cheers
Steve

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 17:47, Abdul <rslab007_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Research the Netscout Ingenuous probes. I work for a financial comapny a
> well. And believe me, milliseconds and in some enviroments microseconds are
> the difference between your firm executing the trade or someone else. We got
> the netscout probes for that reason. Pending on the probe, we get
> granularity to a microseconds. This way when you have tons of data that have
> microburts, you can record that data and determine what is happening
> proactively. Again, I work with them now, but if you look around you may see
> similar tools. Be advised, at least with Netscouts, they are very expensive.
> But if your in the financial space, time is money, and time lost
> troubleshooting and diagnosing production problems you could gave seen ahead
> will likely cost your firm money in the market.
>
> On May 9, 2009, at 8:08 AM, 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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