I would like to solicit recommendations for network monitoring utilities. We are attempting to monitor around a thousand nodes (and growing). We're using SunNet Manager since we're primarily a Sun shop. The problem is it's taking a full time programmer (me) to keep up with the changes in our net. It doesn't seem like it ought to take that much effort. The operations staff is competent and ought to be able to configure a monitoring utility. Also, SunNet seems to be a cpu hog. At the rate it uses up cpu, I'll need a giga-SPARC by next year. So, the question of the day is what's in use and really works ? I'm not enamored of cute GUI interfaces, particularly ones that try to draw my network out before giveing any useful information. Among other problems, running these over a less than wonderful connection to my hotel room is painful. Something that scales well into multipe thousands of nodes would be nice. Thanks in advance. -- David L. Hares, Senior Staff Programmer AutoNet Phone: (313) 995-6539 175 Jackson Plaza FAX : (313) 995-6458 Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (USA) Email: dhares@autonet.net
We've used HP Openview, but we are now migrating to CA (Computer Associates) UniCenter TNG. UniCenter not only scales extremely well, but offers so much more indepth analysis of end stations/routers/etc. here is the url: http://www.cai.com/products/uctr.htm Robert Bowman Exodus Communications Inc. rob@exodus.net
I would like to solicit recommendations for network monitoring utilities. We are attempting to monitor around a thousand nodes (and growing). We're using SunNet Manager since we're primarily a Sun shop. The problem is it's taking a full time programmer (me) to keep up with the changes in our net. It doesn't seem like it ought to take that much effort. The operations staff is competent and ought to be able to configure a monitoring utility. Also, SunNet seems to be a cpu hog. At the rate it uses up cpu, I'll need a giga-SPARC by next year.
So, the question of the day is what's in use and really works ? I'm not enamored of cute GUI interfaces, particularly ones that try to draw my network out before giveing any useful information. Among other problems, running these over a less than wonderful connection to my hotel room is painful. Something that scales well into multipe thousands of nodes would be nice.
Thanks in advance. -- David L. Hares, Senior Staff Programmer AutoNet Phone: (313) 995-6539 175 Jackson Plaza FAX : (313) 995-6458 Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (USA) Email: dhares@autonet.net
I have a beat of my network monitoring program that I've written slowly over the past 2 years available for ftp also, you can teach it things like network dependencies, single points of failure fairly simply in a easy to use configuration file, it can check imap, pop3, smtp, nntp and other services.. I wasn't going to post something to the lists until I had done some more rewrites to some sections of code, but people should feel free to test it out and comment on it.. You can get it from ftp://puck.nether.net/pub/jared Feel free to contact me directly about any problems you have with it. - jared David Hares - ADP Autonet boldly claimed:
I would like to solicit recommendations for network monitoring utilities. We are attempting to monitor around a thousand nodes (and growing). We're using SunNet Manager since we're primarily a Sun shop. The problem is it's taking a full time programmer (me) to keep up with the changes in our net. It doesn't seem like it ought to take that much effort. The operations staff is competent and ought to be able to configure a monitoring utility. Also, SunNet seems to be a cpu hog. At the rate it uses up cpu, I'll need a giga-SPARC by next year.
So, the question of the day is what's in use and really works ? I'm not enamored of cute GUI interfaces, particularly ones that try to draw my network out before giveing any useful information. Among other problems, running these over a less than wonderful connection to my hotel room is painful. Something that scales well into multipe thousands of nodes would be nice.
Thanks in advance. -- David L. Hares, Senior Staff Programmer AutoNet Phone: (313) 995-6539 175 Jackson Plaza FAX : (313) 995-6458 Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (USA) Email: dhares@autonet.net
-- jared@CIC.Net - CICNET --------- jared@Nether.Net - Nether Network For a good time, look at http://www.izzy.net/~janc/tour/ For a worse time, look at http://puck.nether.net/
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