hallo, On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Ben Hicks wrote:
> Something like Orion will work out of the box. It will monitor everything > you need, and it will provide you with wizards to help get everything setup. setting up MRTG is as simple has running the cfgmaker and editing the .conf (which is _REALLY_ straight forward) > Not only will it monitor your routers, but it can also monitor any device > that supports SNMP - IE servers. as long as your devices support SNMP, MRTG can monitor it (ie: routers, adsl 'routers', linux, freebsd, win2kserver, etc etc, doesnt matter what OS or hardware, as long as it supports SNMP) > So really it depends on how much you want to spend. If you have the cash, > and don't want to spend a lot of time messing around, go with Orion. If you > don't have the money and you don't minde spending quite a bit of time, go > with MRTG or RRDB (MRTGs big brother) i got it working first time. its not MRTG thats a mission to setup, its the SNMP part... i couldnt find anywhere on the net that had a nice tutorial on SNMP for freebsd, but since my adsl router was already configured with it, MRTG was a breeze to setup. you simply tell it where to fetch it's stats (ip & interface, plus a little more) stephen. > -----Original Message----- > From: stephen at unix dot za dot net [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 15 July 2003 11:50 > To: Potter, Tim > Cc: Nick Benigno; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Monitoring the network: Routers > > > > well i dont know too much about routers and that, but i spose i'm never > gonna get anywhere without posting, so im trying to post more often now ;) > > surely you're router supports SNMP? > > i'm not too sure on the full capabilities of SNMP, but thats what i use > for MRTG (bandwidth monitoring/usage app... makes pretty little graphs > etc). > > what exactly are you trying to monitor? > > stephen. > > > On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Potter, Tim wrote: > > > There are some free ones, but if you are looking for features and slick > > setup, interfaces, charts, etc. you can go cheap with SolarWinds. > > We use it and it works great. A standalone license to monitor unlimited > > devices is about $995. > > However, it doesn't report traffic type that I am aware of. > > www.solarwinds.net > > Check out the Engineer's edition toolset. > > -Tim > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Nick Benigno [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 2:10 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Monitoring the network: Routers > > > > > > I am interesting in getting some ideas as to which packages are out > > there and recommended to monitor a router. > > > > Like the following stats:(in real-time) > > > > CPU Utilization > > Bandwidth Utilization > > Packet Count > > Packets in Error > > Type of Traffic > > > > It would have to be able to work with: > > 1> Intel Express Routers(frame relay) ie 9515 > > 2> Netopia/Caymen Routers(dsl/sdsl/idsl) ie r3100 > > 3> Cisco Routers. ie2600 > > > > Considering Points: > > 1>Ease of setup > > 2>Report capability > > 3>Functionality / Compatibility > > > > > > I am looking for a Windows based product, but open to other solutions as > > well. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Nick > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > --- > > Evaluating SSL VPNs' Consider NEOTERIS, chosen as leader by top > > analysts! 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