For question number 2 - monitoring
What's Up Gold - by Ipswitch, Inc. http://www.ipswitch.com/ has been
invaluable for my network. It is a fairly simple easy to set up,
ping/snmp program (I have been told it is used by Cisco Works 2000). If
you can ping it, you can monitor it. We have had many times that we
called our branch sites to tell them they were down, before they called
the help desk. You can select it to send a text page, beeper, email, or
pop up messages that xyz system is down for any time frame up to 24/7.
You can also have it not monitor specific devices or not monitor if
something is down, or only monitor if something is up.
Fortunately/unfortunately, I got paged last night at 4 am that we had a
frame relay circuit down and was able to have the telco have the circuit
back up before the office opened this morning. (I am soooooo tired
now). If this sounds like a commercial - maybe Ipswitch will send me
royalties. but we have definitely gotten our moneys worth. Email or
call me directly if you have any questions.
David Toalson
816-701-4142
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> From: Pete[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Reply To: Pete
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 7:07 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: redundancy
>
> This is what I have to work with. I have 2 T1, each going into s0 and
> s1.
>
> What can I do to enable redundancy? If the T1 in s0 fails , s1 will
> automatically kick in and takeover.
>
> Also , what monitoring software do any of you use to monitor your
> networks.
> specifically for network outages?
>
> Pete
>
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