[Discuss] Network monitoring tool recommendation

2013-02-06 Thread David Rosenstrauch
We've got some machine (or machines) sucking up a lot of bandwidth on our network. I'm trying to pin down exactly what, but not having much luck so far. The network's got about a dozen machines, behind a firewall. What I'd like to see is a high-level view of the whole network's bandwidth

Re: [Discuss] Network monitoring tool recommendation

2013-02-06 Thread Drew Van Zandt
Cacti, Nagios, and Intellipool are all solid for this. * Drew Van Zandt Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld) Domain Coordinator, MA-003-D. Masquerade aVST * On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:11 PM, David Rosenstrauch dar...@darose.netwrote: We've got some machine (or machines)

Re: [Discuss] Network monitoring tool recommendation

2013-02-06 Thread Matt Shields
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Drew Van Zandt drew.vanza...@gmail.comwrote: Cacti, Nagios, and Intellipool are all solid for this. * Drew Van Zandt Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld) Domain Coordinator, MA-003-D. Masquerade aVST * On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:11 PM,

Re: [Discuss] Network monitoring tool recommendation

2013-02-06 Thread David Rosenstrauch
??? I use Nagios extensively on our system to monitor for uptime on machines/daemons, and alert us when something breaks. But I'm not aware of it having the capability to show cumulative network usage, by remote host, across a span of time, for every machine on a network. If it does, could

Re: [Discuss] Network monitoring tool recommendation

2013-02-06 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 02/06/2013 12:34 PM, Matt Shields wrote: Also try ntop. Set it up on a standalone computer. 2 network ports, one for management, one where you mirror all your traffic at the switchport to it and have the interface in promiscuous mode. Then it'll give you nice charts to show you who is

Re: [Discuss] Network monitoring tool recommendation

2013-02-06 Thread Drew Van Zandt
https://www.google.com/search?q=nagios+plugin+network+byte+counteroq=nagios+plugin+network+byte+counter I haven't used any of them in ages (I'm back to hardware design, thank Science), but I had a plugin (or plugin + SNMP?) that monitored all the interface stats back when. * Drew Van Zandt Cam #

Re: [Discuss] Network monitoring tool recommendation

2013-02-06 Thread Alaric
I've had really good experience grabbing Nagios perf data as graphing it with other tools. I think the Splunk4Nagios app is a could example of how you could do it (https://github.com/skywalka/splunk-for-nagios) you may not want to use Splunk due to cost, but I suspect the model would be

Re: [Discuss] Network monitoring tool recommendation

2013-02-06 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 02/06/2013 02:00 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: On 02/06/2013 12:34 PM, Matt Shields wrote: Also try ntop. Set it up on a standalone computer. 2 network ports, one for management, one where you mirror all your traffic at the switchport to it and have the interface in promiscuous mode. Then

Re: [Discuss] Network monitoring tool recommendation

2013-02-06 Thread Rich Braun
David Rosenstrauch dar...@darose.net asked: We've got some machine (or machines) sucking up a lot of bandwidth on our network. I'm trying to pin down exactly what, but not having much luck so far. The network's got about a dozen machines Check out munin, http://munin-monitoring.org. You

Re: [Discuss] Network monitoring tool recommendation

2013-02-06 Thread Matt Shields
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:29 PM, David Rosenstrauch dar...@darose.netwrote: On 02/06/2013 02:00 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: On 02/06/2013 12:34 PM, Matt Shields wrote: Also try ntop. Set it up on a standalone computer. 2 network ports, one for management, one where you mirror all your