Re: Network Monitoring

Did you look into *Dude* utility, It is a Free SNMP based utility and check
if it is useful in your environment.

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 1:42 AM, Alexei Monastyrnyi <alexeim73_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> I have been using SolarWinds NPM/NCM for a couple of years. Good product,
> no doubts. For 15 sites environment I have managed to stay withing 250
> license units for NPM. But I am checking only critical interfaces, no user
> ports are monitored.
>
> But if Bill says it is a big environment, the price per port might be high,
> since SolarWinds charges per node OR interface whichever hits the roof
> first. Monitoring each switch port would give a lot of interfaces for NPM
> and might lead to a need to buy unrestricted (quite expensive) license.
>
> A.
>
>
> ALL From_NJ wrote:
>
>> <my .02>
>>
>> Hey team,
>>
>> For the price it is hard to beat solarwind's Orion. The software works
>> pretty darn good. Contact Solarwinds, tell them you are in a competitive
>> situation, and ask them: "Which solution should I choose?" See what they
>> can do for you ...
>>
>> ;-)
>>
>> A few years ago when I used Tivoli, it was a full time chore ... not fun.
>> For sure, it was not 'set it and forget it' ... I do not know about now.
>>
>> There is a bit too much on this page below ... a lot is offered to say the
>> least, but ... there might be something that meets your needs.
>>
>> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/netmgtsw/
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Muhammad Nasim <muhammad.nasim_at_gmail.com
>> >wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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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