Okey Dokey....
hardware ....get a laptop...running Win2000 (that way you can change ip
address(non-dhcp) on the Fly
software
www.solarwinds.net ( solarwinds pro) managment+troubleshooting $500
www.nai.com (snifferpro or netXray) troubleshooting $500-10,000
www.concord.com (Nethealth) reporting+Stats $20-100,00
www.hp.com (Hpopenview) reporting+managment+troublshooting $????
www.cisco.com (ciscoworks2000) Reporting (Resource manager essentials)+
Troubleshooting (Vlan,ATM,WAN manager) managemnt (CSWI,etc,etc) $30,000
as you can see it depends on your budget .....
i use hpopenview all day as it flags up devices/office/ospf area`s going
down ..and can do some real-time int stats(nice graph).also logging of
error`s ...Node down,SNMP mis-match,etc,etc,etc
also concord nethealth...good for telling me what has happened...can tell
say ,,,cpu utilization on a router for the last 12/24H..t
up to weeks...gives graph...
if you can`t stretch to that use solarwinds( some good tools for small
networks) and netXray (packet analyser)....we have 1,000s of devises over
100`s of sites so use enterprise tools
HTH
steve
>From: "Jim Yam"
>Reply-To: "Jim Yam"
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Network Tools [7:8541]
>Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 11:43:59 -0400
>
>Can anybody recommend some good hardware and software tools for networking
>and troubleshooting.
>Please do let me know estimate cost if possible. Thanks in advance.
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