Re: Backbone Monitoring Tools

I use snmpstatd - snmpstat.sf.net . - Original Message - From: Ray Burkholder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Ashe Canvar' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 4:47 PM Subject: RE: Backbone Monitoring Tools A few more comments. I found a link to snmp

Re: Backbone Monitoring Tools

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Alexei Roudnev wrote: I use snmpstatd - snmpstat.sf.net . Oooh, looks nice! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ashe Canvar 2. actively detect routing changes / failover to redundant paths using traceroutes i.e. alert if

Re: Backbone Monitoring Tools

D'oh!! At first I thought he was asking for backHOE monitoring tools. Around here we simply bury a short length of fiber and wait a few minutes until the backhoes sniff it out and start digging sorta like the way they use pigs to search for truffles.

Re: Backbone Monitoring Tools

PROTECTED] To: Alexei Roudnev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ray Burkholder [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Ashe Canvar' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 5:09 AM Subject: Re: Backbone Monitoring Tools On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Alexei Roudnev wrote: I use snmpstatd - snmpstat.sf.net

Re: Backbone Monitoring Tools

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:07:27 PST, Ashe Canvar said: 2. actively detect routing changes / failover to redundant paths using traceroutes i.e. alert if SFO-CHG-NYC changes to SFO-LXE-HOU-NYC ( link state protocols suck as far as testing backup paths go) Two words: Asymmetric

Re: Backbone Monitoring Tools

Wouldn't you be better served just walking the netToMedia tables for your devices? Parsing configs sucks. Even caching the contents of a simple snmpwalk would save you some pain. Shovel 'em into a db and call it a day. - billn On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Ashe Canvar wrote: Well, True. But the

Backbone Monitoring Tools

Hi All, I want a simple backbone monitor for my 5 datacenters. My backbone consists of redundant IPSEC/GRE tunnnels. At the very least I want to ping, traceroute and transfer a small file every few minutes over all IPSEC links. I am sure there are products that do this already, but I am having

Re: Backbone Monitoring Tools

mrtg..Ashe Canvar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All,I want a simple backbone monitor for my 5 datacenters. My "backbone"consists of redundant IPSEC/GRE tunnnels.At the very least I want to ping, traceroute and transfer a small fileevery few minutes over all IPSEC links. I am sure there are

Re: Backbone Monitoring Tools

On 3/28/06, Ashe Canvar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want a simple backbone monitor for my 5 datacenters. My backbone consists of redundant IPSEC/GRE tunnnels. At the very least I want to ping, traceroute and transfer a small file every few minutes over all IPSEC links. I am sure there are

Re: Backbone Monitoring Tools

If you can't say something useful.. Assuming you're looking for basic latency and availability monitoring, with alerts: http://www.smokeping.org - billn On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Jon Lyons wrote: mrtg.. Ashe Canvar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I want a simple backbone monitor for my 5

Re: Backbone Monitoring Tools

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:13:23 -0800 Ashe Canvar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I want a simple backbone monitor for my 5 datacenters. My backbone consists of redundant IPSEC/GRE tunnnels. At the very least I want to ping, traceroute and transfer a small file every few minutes over

Re: Backbone Monitoring Tools

I have had a decent amount of success with Nagios. It is not trivial to setup, but once it is up and running, it has always handled our dependencies and such very well. Additionally, because it calls external programs to do the checks, it is pretty simple to write a script that measures whatever

Re: Backbone Monitoring Tools

Thanks for the quick responses. Perhaps I should have been more explicit. I already use remstats (http://remstats.sourceforge.net/release/index.html) for interface b/w monitoring. I have worked with nagios and openview int he past. I have an ospf based network. The specific monitoring problem I

Re: Backbone Monitoring Tools

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:07:27 -0800 Ashe Canvar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the quick responses. Perhaps I should have been more explicit. I already use remstats (http://remstats.sourceforge.net/release/index.html) for interface b/w monitoring. I have worked with nagios and

RE: Backbone Monitoring Tools

To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Backbone Monitoring Tools Thanks for the quick responses. Perhaps I should have been more explicit. I already use remstats (http://remstats.sourceforge.net/release/index.html) for interface b/w monitoring. I have worked with nagios and openview int he past. I

Re: Backbone Monitoring Tools

At 06:23 PM 3/28/2006, Jon Lyons wrote: mrtg.. MRTG is not a monitoring system. It's a data collection system. Toby should have never put in the alarm configuration. But he did. Anyhow. There's some tools listed in the NANOG faq, but two very easy ones come to mind. 1. NAGIOS 2. NOCOL (I

RE: Backbone Monitoring Tools

to generate your grid for 1) and 3). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ashe Canvar Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 20:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Backbone Monitoring Tools Thanks for the quick responses. Perhaps I should have been more

Re: Backbone Monitoring Tools

Do you need generate alerts? Orprovide trending informationto measure performance?I said mrtg or rrd because you can create graphs based on the ping repsonse time packet loss between the datacenters, you could also create a graph showing how long it takes to transfere a file to remote site.