RE: Intelligent network monitoring systems (commercial/open source, what have you)

2009-09-11 Thread Ray Sanders
e [mailto:char...@thewybles.com] > Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 3:07 PM > To: Drew Weaver > Cc: NANOG list > Subject: Re: Intelligent network monitoring systems (commercial/open source, > what have you) > > Most of these threads usually result in telling the poster to R

Re: Intelligent network monitoring systems (commercial/open source, what have you)

2009-09-11 Thread Chaim Rieger
Drew Weaver wrote: > Howdy, > > Can anyone suggest a network monitoring system that knows the difference > between a cisco 1701 and a GSR 12810/6500, etc? > > What I mean is, many times these days there are several different sub systems > you have to monitor inside of a router/switch and not j

Re: Intelligent network monitoring systems (commercial/open source, what have you)

2009-09-11 Thread Charles Wyble
We use Cacti for this purpose, but it still requires creating custom datasources for the vendor-specific SNMP MIBs. +1 for cacti. I think pretty much everything requires bringing in the mibs and setting up mappings etc. I've used Nagios/Cacti/Ganglia/MRTG.

Re: Intelligent network monitoring systems (commercial/open source, what have you)

2009-09-11 Thread Charles Wyble
Drew Weaver wrote: Ah, I was mainly interested in an Orion like system that actually has all of that kind of worked-in. Yeah I got that. I am not aware of anything that does that. Not to say it doesn't exist, but if it does it's somewhat well hidden. http://www.frank4dd.com/howto/nagios/c

Re: Intelligent network monitoring systems (commercial/open source, what have you)

2009-09-11 Thread Larry Smith
On Fri September 11 2009 13:59, Drew Weaver wrote: > Howdy, > > Can anyone suggest a network monitoring system that knows the difference > between a cisco 1701 and a GSR 12810/6500, etc? > > What I mean is, many times these days there are several different sub > systems you have to monitor inside o

Re: Intelligent network monitoring systems (commercial/open source, what have you)

2009-09-11 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Charles Wyble wrote: > > It all comes down to SNMP to the best of my knowledge. > > True. While you don't want the MRTG answer, I'd suggest looking at Cacti. There's a large library of device profiles people have put together so as to prevent you from having to hun

Re: Intelligent network monitoring systems (commercial/open source, what have you)

2009-09-11 Thread William Pitcock
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 14:59 -0400, Drew Weaver wrote: > Howdy, > > Can anyone suggest a network monitoring system that knows the difference > between a cisco 1701 and a GSR 12810/6500, etc? > > What I mean is, many times these days there are several different sub systems > you have to monitor

RE: Intelligent network monitoring systems (commercial/open source, what have you)

2009-09-11 Thread Drew Weaver
: Intelligent network monitoring systems (commercial/open source, what have you) Most of these threads usually result in telling the poster to RTFM with a link to it :) I'm too lazy to link the manual. :) c-nsp has extensive archives with lots of questions about various specific SNMP mibs

Re: Intelligent network monitoring systems (commercial/open source, what have you)

2009-09-11 Thread Charles Wyble
Most of these threads usually result in telling the poster to RTFM with a link to it :) I'm too lazy to link the manual. :) c-nsp has extensive archives with lots of questions about various specific SNMP mibs that weren't immediately evident from RTFM. It all comes down to SNMP to the best of

Intelligent network monitoring systems (commercial/open source, what have you)

2009-09-11 Thread Drew Weaver
Howdy, Can anyone suggest a network monitoring system that knows the difference between a cisco 1701 and a GSR 12810/6500, etc? What I mean is, many times these days there are several different sub systems you have to monitor inside of a router/switch and not just interface utilization, the "