Hi Rob, Micromuse's Netcool/USM (Usage Service Monitors) will allow you to monitor traffic on a per user or per port (type) basis. The USMs allow you to monitor and generate notifications for defined thresholds and usage patterns. Here is a URL to a more complete spec sheet: http://www.micromuse.com/downloads/pdf_lit/USMs.pdf Note: I work for Micromuse as a systems engineer, managing the integration of our products at our customers' facilities. -Jim P.
-----Original Message----- From: owner- [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Rob Mitzel Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 2:54 AM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Traffic Threshold monitoring?
Hi everyone,
Quick question. We're currently using MRTG to monitor traffic on a number of cisco switches connected to various customers. Now, this is all great and everything, except there's no real way to monitor if a customer's traffic goes completely out of whack (i.e. they start hammering 20 mbps instead of 300kbps) without manually checking MRTG every few minutes (and that'd be kinda time-consuming, you'd think.) We also show individual MRTG pages to our customer base via some handy mods we made.
So my question is...what's out there that will allow us to check thresholds on traffic, and notify us if needed? We do have monitoring stations, running CastleRock SNMPc software. We have it set up to tell us when there's broadcast storms and suff, but I've never seen anything for actual traffic monitoring.
Thanks in advance!
-Rob.