I played around with JFFNMS the other day and I fell in LOVE again!! (Shh don't tell my wife)..
JFF NMS (or Just For Fun Network Monitoring System as it stands for) is really cool. A pain to get running but boy when your setup and running it's an awesome tool especially if your units support snmp. If they don't support SNMP you can still monitor reachability (basically a ping that records ping times and package drops). If it support snmp then you can get some really cool stats. Like my MT boxes I can monitor memory usage, disk usage and many other things. The same goes for my Cisco router be able to graph CPU usage etc. You have a status info screen where you can quickly see how your network is behaving. Say if your monitoring port 80 on one machine and it goes down then you will see a alarm there etc.. Way cool. http://jffnms.sourceforge.net/ Best thing of all it stores the data in a mysql database and you can go in check any period of time that you have recorded. So you can see a 30 min period 10 days ago if you want. php, mysql and rrdtools at it's very best. Best regards, Eje "Aya" Gustafsson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The Family Entertainment Network http://www.fament.com Phone : 620-231-7777 Fax : 240-376-7272 - Your Full Time Professionals - Online Store http://www.wisp-router.com/ MikroTik, Star-OS, PACWireless, EnGenius, RF Industries -- BOB> rrdtool + cacti can do this (if you like MRTG, you'll love these) BOB> The output is nice pretty graphs with ping times (or anything else..) BOB> ----- Original Message ----- BOB> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BOB> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BOB> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 11:09 AM BOB> Subject: [smartBridges] remote monitoring >> What kind of tools are there out there to remotely monitor the line >> quality between NOC and CPE devices? >> >> Every once in a while I'll run across someone who has excellent MRTG >> charts (RSSI and linkQ), but their connection speed sucks. I'll play >> around with their setup and will occasionally see something like they >> can't take pings > 500 bytes or something like that. The last time it >> happened, Customer rebooted his CPE to no avail. I reset the AP and it >> went away. Thankfully it didn't require a truckroll. >> >> Is there some kind of tool out there that can accept a list (db?) of IP >> addresses and then at preset times of the day, will ping each IP on the >> list with varying sized packets in order to measure the quality of the >> connection and then record the results? Something like that would be an >> excellent compliment to MRTG. >> >> I suppose it wouldn't be too terribly difficult to write one, but...ahhh.. >> who has the time? (but one of these days I know I will!!) >> >> Tim Foster >> www.AledoBroadBand.com >> Aledo's only high-speed ISP >> >> The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List >> To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe BOB> smartBridges <yournickname> >> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe BOB> smartBridges) >> Archives: http://archives.part-15.org >> BOB> The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List BOB> To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type BOB> subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> BOB> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) BOB> Archives: http://archives.part-15.org -- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org
