I'd like to announce the release of a new network analysis tool, the SNMP Vulture (http://www.vix.com/vulture). Vulture is a set of utilities to collect and store SNMP data and browse it in an interactive fashion (using any web browser). The result is a tool that can give you a good grasp of what a large network is doing. Here's a bit of the main man page: VULTURE(1) VULTURE VULTURE(1) NAME vulture - collect a round of snmp based on configuration files SYNOPSIS vulture [-dhv] DESCRIPTION Vulture collects SNMP data and stores it in a hierarchy of log files. It determines what data to collect based on a configuration file that in turn relies on a series of SNMP template files to determine which objects need to be col- lected for each entry in the configuration file. When invoked, vulture will collect a single set of data and store it in the log files. This is not very useful, and vulture is almost never invoked this way. This is usu- ally only necessary while debugging changes to configura- tion or template files. Vulture collects its data in a two pass operation where it first sizes up the tables involved, and then requests entire tables of relevant information. This is an effi- cient process, since it knows which objects it needs out of given tables, based on the information in it's template files. All data that can be directly matched against the net- work.desc file are placed into the regular log files. Data for interfaces that are not listed in the network.desc file are placed in a parallel set of discard log files. These data are usually discarded much earlier than regular data.