Interesting question, I'd like to know more about this myself. I'm so used to monitoring SNMP-based devices, never really thought about multi-casts and being able to see the pattern/tree....
> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:59:13 -0400 > Subject: Multicast Network Monitoring > From: rjsa...@gmail.com > To: nanog@nanog.org > > Curious if anyone has any experience with tools specifically for monitoring > multicast. Finds where the trees are, paths they are on, tracks all > senders/receivers per group, handles PIM-SM, RPs, MSDP, MDT Tunnels over > MPLS VPN, etc. Such as Cisco Multicast Manager, EMC Ionix Multicast > Manager, CA Spectrum? The good and the bad? Worth the effort/investment? > > Thanks