31 Oct
2007
31 Oct
'07
5:49 p.m.
Bill Fenner (fenner) writes:
On 10/30/07, Nesser, Phil <nesser@amazon.com> wrote:
2. Open Source Tools that you use or would recommend (I know the obvious smokeping, mrtg, nagios).
I don't see netdisco mentioned in this space very much, but I recommend it for the "what is plugged into what" question - both in an enterprise environment ("where is this misbehaving MAC address?") and a data center ("which port was that server plugged into on the switch?").
Some of the Metanav features actually do this, but yes NetDisco is quite useful (especially its Perl modules are invaluable when doing configuration management across the bogos^H^Hvariety of Cisco equipment out there).