Network Monitoring System - Recommendations?
Hi - I was interested in finding out what software applications other ISPs are using for network monitoring? For example: 1) Overall network health - uptime reports 2) Backup router config automatically 3) Bandwidth reporting (or integration with an MRTG-type app) 4) SNMP trap support (BGP/OSPF session drops - emails out) 5) Database back end (port info into or over to other apps) I'm just looking for something well rounded for a small ISP. I've heard about OpenNMS and other apps but I'd like to get everyone's feedback. Thanks! -Charlie
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Charlie Khanna - NextWeb wrote:
Hi - I was interested in finding out what software applications other ISPs are using for network monitoring? For example:
1) Overall network health - uptime reports
2) Backup router config automatically
http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/
3) Bandwidth reporting (or integration with an MRTG-type app)
http://cricket.sourceforge.net/
4) SNMP trap support (BGP/OSPF session drops - emails out)
http://www.snmptt.org/ http://www.nagios.org
5) Database back end (port info into or over to other apps)
I'm just looking for something well rounded for a small ISP. I've heard about OpenNMS and other apps but I'd like to get everyone's feedback. Thanks!
Nothing all in one place, that I'm aware of. But with a little work, you could probably integrate it all into nagios. After all, you can make the host names or descriptions URLs that link to bandwidth and error graphs or other tools. Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 14:46:31 -0400 (EDT), Andy Dills <andy@xecu.net> said:
1) Overall network health - uptime reports
2) Backup router config automatically
3) Bandwidth reporting (or integration with an MRTG-type app)
4) SNMP trap support (BGP/OSPF session drops - emails out)
5) Database back end (port info into or over to other apps)
Andy> Nothing all in one place, that I'm aware of. But with a little work, you Andy> could probably integrate it all into nagios. After all, you can make the Andy> host names or descriptions URLs that link to bandwidth and error graphs or Andy> other tools. Net-Policy does 1, 3, and 5... It collects traps and lets you view them, but doesn't currently email (trivial addition though). #2 isn't done, though it does collect data and put it in a postgres database, thus you could say it collects it, just not in a way in which you can send it back out again :-/ -- "In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap, and much more difficult to find." -- Terry Pratchett
3) Bandwidth reporting (or integration with an MRTG-type app)
You can also do this with Nagios now too.. with APAN. http://apan.sourceforge.net/ It's kind of cool. :D -Jonathan
I use http://snmpstat.sf.net for bandwidth, links monityoring, router's cpu usage, etc etc; and http://cricket.sourceforge.net/ for additional parameters. First (developed in Moscow for few ISP) monitors abd adapted here for Enterprise (and shows everuything on the single scree, with traffic bars) 300 - 600 links without any problems (using approx 5% of servers cpu); second allows to monitor non standard parameters), have tickets, reports, alerts; second is very flexible (even to flexible). Btw, we implemented per-usert view (user can open his link and see traffic, tickets, usage reports etc for HIS link only) in snmpstat. (In reality, we use portal based on snmpstat, with few different tools integrated tiogether, such as Cisco Configuration Repository, ProBIND2 , inventory database, alert alias system with archive and so on). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Nichols" <jnichols@pbp.net> To: "Andy Dills" <andy@xecu.net> Cc: "Charlie Khanna - NextWeb" <charlie@nextweb.net>; <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 6:31 PM Subject: Re: Network Monitoring System - Recommendations?
3) Bandwidth reporting (or integration with an MRTG-type app)
You can also do this with Nagios now too.. with APAN.
It's kind of cool. :D
-Jonathan
APAN looks pretty sweet, going to have to try that one out myself :-) On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 21:31, Jonathan Nichols wrote:
3) Bandwidth reporting (or integration with an MRTG-type app)
You can also do this with Nagios now too.. with APAN.
It's kind of cool. :D
-Jonathan
3) Bandwidth reporting (or integration with an MRTG-type app)
You can also do this with Nagios now too.. with APAN.
It's kind of cool. :D
There's more than one way to do it with Nagios: http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Charts.1720.0.html I'm using nagiostat myself, which churns out graphs like: http://nagios.windchannel.com/nagiostat/nagiostat.cgi?graph_name=westst-cr1-... I just set it up yesterday so there's not much polling data yet. I like it with MRTG/cricket better, actually - you can see a few blank spots where checks got delayed due to other outages, and then there's no info to use. MRTG/cricket just runs off cron, which means it hardly misses a beat. Rob Nelson Rob Nelson ronelson@vt.edu
Dear all Thank you for your info but Do you know there are any softwares to support MAC? Thank you --- Rob Nelson <ronelson@vt.edu> wrote:
3) Bandwidth reporting (or integration with an MRTG-type app)
You can also do this with Nagios now too.. with APAN.
It's kind of cool. :D
There's more than one way to do it with Nagios:
http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Charts.1720.0.html
I'm using nagiostat myself, which churns out graphs like:
http://nagios.windchannel.com/nagiostat/nagiostat.cgi?graph_name=westst-cr1-...
I just set it up yesterday so there's not much polling data yet. I like it with MRTG/cricket better, actually - you can see a few blank spots where checks got delayed due to other outages, and then there's no info to use. MRTG/cricket just runs off cron, which means it hardly misses a beat.
Rob Nelson
Rob Nelson ronelson@vt.edu
I generated config for 'snmpstatd' automatically, from user;'s database (it was simple; all I need was Router, Interface, User-name, number for this user, priority). For automated config backups, I use CCR (fully web based Cisco configuration -> CVS system). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Dills" <andy@xecu.net> To: "Charlie Khanna - NextWeb" <charlie@nextweb.net> Cc: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 11:46 AM Subject: Re: Network Monitoring System - Recommendations?
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Charlie Khanna - NextWeb wrote:
Hi - I was interested in finding out what software applications other
ISPs
are using for network monitoring? For example:
1) Overall network health - uptime reports
2) Backup router config automatically
http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/
3) Bandwidth reporting (or integration with an MRTG-type app)
http://cricket.sourceforge.net/
4) SNMP trap support (BGP/OSPF session drops - emails out)
http://www.snmptt.org/ http://www.nagios.org
5) Database back end (port info into or over to other apps)
I'm just looking for something well rounded for a small ISP. I've heard about OpenNMS and other apps but I'd like to get everyone's feedback. Thanks!
Nothing all in one place, that I'm aware of. But with a little work, you could probably integrate it all into nagios. After all, you can make the host names or descriptions URLs that link to bandwidth and error graphs or other tools.
Andy
--- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---
Checkout http://perfparse.sourceforge.net/ lets you graph the data from the nagios plugins... --- Alexei Roudnev <alex@relcom.net> wrote:
I generated config for 'snmpstatd' automatically, from user;'s database (it was simple; all I need was Router, Interface, User-name, number for this user, priority).
For automated config backups, I use CCR (fully web based Cisco configuration -> CVS system).
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Dills" <andy@xecu.net> To: "Charlie Khanna - NextWeb" <charlie@nextweb.net> Cc: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 11:46 AM Subject: Re: Network Monitoring System - Recommendations?
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Charlie Khanna - NextWeb
wrote:
Hi - I was interested in finding out what
software applications other ISPs
are using for network monitoring? For example:
1) Overall network health - uptime reports
2) Backup router config automatically
http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/
3) Bandwidth reporting (or integration with an MRTG-type app)
http://cricket.sourceforge.net/
4) SNMP trap support (BGP/OSPF session drops - emails out)
http://www.snmptt.org/ http://www.nagios.org
5) Database back end (port info into or over to other apps)
I'm just looking for something well rounded for a small ISP. I've heard about OpenNMS and other apps but I'd like to get everyone's feedback. Thanks!
Nothing all in one place, that I'm aware of. But with a little work, you could probably integrate it all into nagios. After all, you can make the host names or descriptions URLs that link to bandwidth and error graphs or other tools.
Andy
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I read document of these tools and find they work with Cisco products. But, how about Juniper M160 or M320, Unishpere's BRAS products? Where can I find Juniper's OID on its tempreture, chassis, CPU, bandwidth ? Does anyone have a running configuration for M160 or Unishpere's BRAS products? On configuration bankup, rancid use telnet (ssh). But, I take this a not-secure methode as it has to code password in login script. Is there any tool to get configuration file from read-only SNMP cumminity? Joe --- Jon Lyons <jlyons30@yahoo.com> wrote:
Checkout http://perfparse.sourceforge.net/ lets you graph the data from the nagios plugins...
--- Alexei Roudnev <alex@relcom.net> wrote:
I generated config for 'snmpstatd' automatically, from user;'s database (it was simple; all I need was Router, Interface, User-name, number for this user, priority).
For automated config backups, I use CCR (fully web based Cisco configuration -> CVS system).
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Dills" <andy@xecu.net> To: "Charlie Khanna - NextWeb"
<charlie@nextweb.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 11:46 AM Subject: Re: Network Monitoring System - Recommendations?
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Charlie Khanna - NextWeb
wrote:
Hi - I was interested in finding out what
software applications other ISPs
are using for network monitoring? For example:
1) Overall network health - uptime reports
2) Backup router config automatically
http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/
3) Bandwidth reporting (or integration with an MRTG-type app)
http://cricket.sourceforge.net/
4) SNMP trap support (BGP/OSPF session drops - emails out)
http://www.snmptt.org/ http://www.nagios.org
5) Database back end (port info into or over to other apps)
I'm just looking for something well rounded for a small ISP. I've heard about OpenNMS and other apps but I'd like to get everyone's feedback. Thanks!
Nothing all in one place, that I'm aware of. But with a little work, you could probably integrate it all into nagios. After all, you can make the host names or descriptions URLs that link to bandwidth and error graphs or other tools.
Andy
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I read document of these tools and find they work with Cisco products. But, how about Juniper M160 or M320, Unishpere's BRAS products? Where can I find Juniper's OID on its tempreture, chassis, CPU, bandwidth ? Does They use standart MIB2 and a little of Cisco specific MIB's. As I already said, it is a good tool to view and monitor traffic, utilisation, errors, and use additional tiool to deep monitor vendor specific parameters. We use 'snmpstat' to monitor routers, switches, ports and interfaces (and bgp) and cricket to watch few additional parameters (to configure alerts, we use aliases and mhonarc mail archives with auto expiration - for alerts, warnings, reports and audits, and for 'root' and 'oracle' e-mail.
anyone have a running configuration for M160 or Unishpere's BRAS products? CCR can work with anything which (1) allow telnet or ssh, and (2) can 'write net' config (in any syntax). You can use encrypted password file (using passphrase) if you want. Using SNMP was rejected, because it is absolutely device-specific, impossible in many cases, and we never saw it as a security problem, because all devices are restricted to allow ssh or telnet from 2 or 3 servers only, because passwords are encrypted, and because automated config reading and web access aree much more important vs very abstract possibility of hacking (in reality, problem can come from insiders, not from hackers, so no extra accounst are allowed on monitoring server).
You can get configuratuion (initialize tftp transfer) using some snmp (WRITE) variable and pre-configured tftp parameters, but it works on a very few Cisco devices only. As I said, CCR uses 3 methods: - password file encrypted by public key - password file encrypted by 3des passphrase; - explicit password. In all cases, problem is with root user only - root can alway decrypt password or interseipt web session. User, who have permission to edit CCR config and know passphrase, can (in theory) see passwords as well. Other users can not, even if they know passphrase - they can only initiate config reading. Network admins do not know enable passwords, if they do not need it - they use passphrase To have automated config reading, any of first 2 methods can be used (passphrase must be written into special file, if method 2 is used, root-only readable). For manual reading, any methgod can be used, without any file with passphrase. In reality, it is not serious security problem because all devices can be accessed from a very few servers only, and because we can use 'ssh' instead of 'telnet' (CCR can be configured or select ssh/telnet automatically). You can, in turn, play with security level , but it (again) does not work on generic case (any cisco device) and is very tricky. For Juniper or other device - you can try to program 'expect' script, or use 'snmp' initiated transfer - all other things will work.
On configuration bankup, rancid use telnet (ssh). But, I take this a not-secure methode as it has to code password in login script. Is there any tool to get configuration file from read-only SNMP cumminity?
Joe
--- Jon Lyons <jlyons30@yahoo.com> wrote:
Checkout http://perfparse.sourceforge.net/ lets you graph the data from the nagios plugins...
--- Alexei Roudnev <alex@relcom.net> wrote:
I generated config for 'snmpstatd' automatically, from user;'s database (it was simple; all I need was Router, Interface, User-name, number for this user, priority).
For automated config backups, I use CCR (fully web based Cisco configuration -> CVS system).
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Dills" <andy@xecu.net> To: "Charlie Khanna - NextWeb"
<charlie@nextweb.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 11:46 AM Subject: Re: Network Monitoring System - Recommendations?
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Charlie Khanna - NextWeb
wrote:
Hi - I was interested in finding out what
software applications other ISPs
are using for network monitoring? For example:
1) Overall network health - uptime reports
2) Backup router config automatically
http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/
3) Bandwidth reporting (or integration with an MRTG-type app)
http://cricket.sourceforge.net/
4) SNMP trap support (BGP/OSPF session drops - emails out)
http://www.snmptt.org/ http://www.nagios.org
5) Database back end (port info into or over to other apps)
I'm just looking for something well rounded for a small ISP. I've heard about OpenNMS and other apps but I'd like to get everyone's feedback. Thanks!
Nothing all in one place, that I'm aware of. But with a little work, you could probably integrate it all into nagios. After all, you can make the host names or descriptions URLs that link to bandwidth and error graphs or other tools.
Andy
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Hi, I googled with "CCR" but it seems nothing useful in 5 pages. Would you please do me a favor to give the URL of that tool ? I tried to set up MRTG monitoring Unishpere BRAS 1400 and M160, but I failed with data collection because wrong OID used ( CPU, mem, tempreture, BW etc ) :-( regards --- Alexei Roudnev <alex@relcom.net> wrote:
I read document of these tools and find they work with Cisco products. But, how about Juniper M160 or M320, Unishpere's BRAS products? Where can I find Juniper's OID on its tempreture, chassis, CPU, bandwidth ? Does They use standart MIB2 and a little of Cisco specific MIB's. As I already said, it is a good tool to view and monitor traffic, utilisation, errors, and use additional tiool to deep monitor vendor specific parameters. We use 'snmpstat' to monitor routers, switches, ports and interfaces (and bgp) and cricket to watch few additional parameters (to configure alerts, we use aliases and mhonarc mail archives with auto expiration - for alerts, warnings, reports and audits, and for 'root' and 'oracle' e-mail.
anyone have a running configuration for M160 or Unishpere's BRAS products? CCR can work with anything which (1) allow telnet or ssh, and (2) can 'write net' config (in any syntax). You can use encrypted password file (using passphrase) if you want. Using SNMP was rejected, because it is absolutely device-specific, impossible in many cases, and we never saw it as a security problem, because all devices are restricted to allow ssh or telnet from 2 or 3 servers only, because passwords are encrypted, and because automated config reading and web access aree much more important vs very abstract possibility of hacking (in reality, problem can come from insiders, not from hackers, so no extra accounst are allowed on monitoring server).
You can get configuratuion (initialize tftp transfer) using some snmp (WRITE) variable and pre-configured tftp parameters, but it works on a very few Cisco devices only.
As I said, CCR uses 3 methods: - password file encrypted by public key - password file encrypted by 3des passphrase; - explicit password.
In all cases, problem is with root user only - root can alway decrypt password or interseipt web session. User, who have permission to edit CCR config and know passphrase, can (in theory) see passwords as well. Other users can not, even if they know passphrase - they can only initiate config reading.
Network admins do not know enable passwords, if they do not need it - they use passphrase
To have automated config reading, any of first 2 methods can be used (passphrase must be written into special file, if method 2 is used, root-only readable). For manual reading, any methgod can be used, without any file with passphrase.
In reality, it is not serious security problem because all devices can be accessed from a very few servers only, and because we can use 'ssh' instead of 'telnet' (CCR can be configured or select ssh/telnet automatically). You can, in turn, play with security level , but it (again) does not work on generic case (any cisco device) and is very tricky.
For Juniper or other device - you can try to program 'expect' script, or use 'snmp' initiated transfer - all other things will work.
On configuration bankup, rancid use telnet (ssh).
But,
I take this a not-secure methode as it has to code password in login script. Is there any tool to get configuration file from read-only SNMP cumminity?
Joe
--- Jon Lyons <jlyons30@yahoo.com> wrote:
Checkout http://perfparse.sourceforge.net/ lets
you
graph the data from the nagios plugins...
--- Alexei Roudnev <alex@relcom.net> wrote:
I generated config for 'snmpstatd'
automatically,
from user;'s database (it was simple; all I need was Router, Interface, User-name, number for this user, priority).
For automated config backups, I use CCR (fully web based Cisco configuration -> CVS system).
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Dills" <andy@xecu.net> To: "Charlie Khanna - NextWeb" <charlie@nextweb.net> Cc: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 11:46 AM Subject: Re: Network Monitoring System - Recommendations?
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Charlie Khanna -
NextWeb wrote:
Hi - I was interested in finding out what
software applications other ISPs
are using for network monitoring? For example:
1) Overall network health - uptime reports
2) Backup router config automatically
http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/
3) Bandwidth reporting (or integration with an MRTG-type app)
http://cricket.sourceforge.net/
4) SNMP trap support (BGP/OSPF session drops - emails out)
http://www.snmptt.org/ http://www.nagios.org
5) Database back end (port info into or over to other apps)
I'm just looking for something well rounded for a small ISP. I've heard about OpenNMS and other apps but I'd like to get everyone's feedback. Thanks!
Nothing all in one place, that I'm aware of. But with a little work, you could probably integrate it all into nagios. After all, you can make the host names or descriptions URLs that link to bandwidth and error graphs or other tools.
Andy
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Here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/snmpstat and docs are here http://snmpstat.sourceforge.net/CCR-config.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Shen" <joe_hznm@yahoo.com.sg> To: "Alexei Roudnev" <alex@relcom.net>; "Jon Lyons" <jlyons30@yahoo.com>; "Andy Dills" <andy@xecu.net>; "Charlie Khanna - NextWeb" <charlie@nextweb.net> Cc: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 5:53 PM Subject: Re: Network Monitoring System - Recommendations?
Hi,
I googled with "CCR" but it seems nothing useful in 5 pages. Would you please do me a favor to give the URL of that tool ?
I tried to set up MRTG monitoring Unishpere BRAS 1400 and M160, but I failed with data collection because wrong OID used ( CPU, mem, tempreture, BW etc ) :-(
regards
--- Alexei Roudnev <alex@relcom.net> wrote:
I read document of these tools and find they work with Cisco products. But, how about Juniper M160 or M320, Unishpere's BRAS products? Where can I find Juniper's OID on its tempreture, chassis, CPU, bandwidth ? Does They use standart MIB2 and a little of Cisco specific MIB's. As I already said, it is a good tool to view and monitor traffic, utilisation, errors, and use additional tiool to deep monitor vendor specific parameters. We use 'snmpstat' to monitor routers, switches, ports and interfaces (and bgp) and cricket to watch few additional parameters (to configure alerts, we use aliases and mhonarc mail archives with auto expiration - for alerts, warnings, reports and audits, and for 'root' and 'oracle' e-mail.
anyone have a running configuration for M160 or Unishpere's BRAS products? CCR can work with anything which (1) allow telnet or ssh, and (2) can 'write net' config (in any syntax). You can use encrypted password file (using passphrase) if you want. Using SNMP was rejected, because it is absolutely device-specific, impossible in many cases, and we never saw it as a security problem, because all devices are restricted to allow ssh or telnet from 2 or 3 servers only, because passwords are encrypted, and because automated config reading and web access aree much more important vs very abstract possibility of hacking (in reality, problem can come from insiders, not from hackers, so no extra accounst are allowed on monitoring server).
You can get configuratuion (initialize tftp transfer) using some snmp (WRITE) variable and pre-configured tftp parameters, but it works on a very few Cisco devices only.
As I said, CCR uses 3 methods: - password file encrypted by public key - password file encrypted by 3des passphrase; - explicit password.
In all cases, problem is with root user only - root can alway decrypt password or interseipt web session. User, who have permission to edit CCR config and know passphrase, can (in theory) see passwords as well. Other users can not, even if they know passphrase - they can only initiate config reading.
Network admins do not know enable passwords, if they do not need it - they use passphrase
To have automated config reading, any of first 2 methods can be used (passphrase must be written into special file, if method 2 is used, root-only readable). For manual reading, any methgod can be used, without any file with passphrase.
In reality, it is not serious security problem because all devices can be accessed from a very few servers only, and because we can use 'ssh' instead of 'telnet' (CCR can be configured or select ssh/telnet automatically). You can, in turn, play with security level , but it (again) does not work on generic case (any cisco device) and is very tricky.
For Juniper or other device - you can try to program 'expect' script, or use 'snmp' initiated transfer - all other things will work.
On configuration bankup, rancid use telnet (ssh).
But,
I take this a not-secure methode as it has to code password in login script. Is there any tool to get configuration file from read-only SNMP cumminity?
Joe
--- Jon Lyons <jlyons30@yahoo.com> wrote:
Checkout http://perfparse.sourceforge.net/ lets
you
graph the data from the nagios plugins...
--- Alexei Roudnev <alex@relcom.net> wrote:
I generated config for 'snmpstatd'
automatically,
from user;'s database (it was simple; all I need was Router, Interface, User-name, number for this user, priority).
For automated config backups, I use CCR (fully web based Cisco configuration -> CVS system).
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Dills" <andy@xecu.net> To: "Charlie Khanna - NextWeb" <charlie@nextweb.net> Cc: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 11:46 AM Subject: Re: Network Monitoring System - Recommendations?
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Charlie Khanna -
NextWeb wrote:
> Hi - I was interested in finding out what
software applications other ISPs
> are using for network monitoring? For example: > > > > 1) Overall network health - uptime reports
> 2) Backup router config automatically
http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/
> 3) Bandwidth reporting (or integration with an MRTG-type app)
http://cricket.sourceforge.net/
> 4) SNMP trap support (BGP/OSPF session drops - emails out)
http://www.snmptt.org/ http://www.nagios.org
> 5) Database back end (port info into or over to other apps) > > I'm just looking for something well rounded for a small ISP. I've heard > about OpenNMS and other apps but I'd like to get everyone's feedback. > Thanks!
Nothing all in one place, that I'm aware of. But with a little work, you could probably integrate it all into nagios. After all, you can make the host names or descriptions URLs that link to bandwidth and error graphs or other tools.
Andy
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Nothing all in one place, that I'm aware of. But with a little work, you could probably integrate it all into nagios. After all, you can make the host names or descriptions URLs that link to bandwidth and error graphs or other tools.
I'll second this part. Whether you use cricket or MRTG, or even Nagios itself, you can use a little "notes_url" command to create a link from, say, the "ping" service of your core router to the MRTG charts of bandwidth usage. Rob Nelson Rob Nelson ronelson@vt.edu
Nothing all in one place, that I'm aware of. But with a little work, you
snmpstat have hardcoded set of monitored parameters, but creates all graphs anb links automartically, including customer-only view of customer's links, link to the database record about this link, and link to the router's config @ CCR. This is why we use combination - for 99% of partameters, snmpstat, and for the rest, hand-configured cricket (but I recommend nagios).
could probably integrate it all into nagios. After all, you can make the host names or descriptions URLs that link to bandwidth and error graphs or other tools.
I'll second this part. Whether you use cricket or MRTG, or even Nagios itself, you can use a little "notes_url" command to create a link from, say, the "ping" service of your core router to the MRTG charts of bandwidth usage.
Rob Nelson
Rob Nelson ronelson@vt.edu
Hi Charlie - We use JFFNMS here (http://www.jffnms.org/). We have it monitoring BGP with our 6 backbone providers, all of our T1's (300 or so), DSL lines, dedicated servers, backing up all of our router configs, talking to our F5s, pretty much everything you are asking for. We use it extensively to grab traps and notify my NOC of any problems. Overall I would say that it is monitoring over 15,000 connections and pieces of hardware. We have its bandwidth monitoring and tracking talking directly to our billing engine and allow our customers the ability to log into it and view all of their stats as well. We don't use it to monitor uptime as we utilize different hardware for that but my guess is that with some minor tweaking it could do that as well. Hope this helps. On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 00:01:42 -0700 "Charlie Khanna - NextWeb" <charlie@nextweb.net> wrote:
Hi - I was interested in finding out what software applications other ISPs are using for network monitoring? For example:
1) Overall network health - uptime reports
2) Backup router config automatically
3) Bandwidth reporting (or integration with an MRTG-type app)
4) SNMP trap support (BGP/OSPF session drops - emails out)
5) Database back end (port info into or over to other apps)
I'm just looking for something well rounded for a small ISP. I've heard about OpenNMS and other apps but I'd like to get everyone's feedback. Thanks!
-Charlie
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adrian kok -
Alexei Roudnev -
Andy Dills -
Charlie Khanna - NextWeb -
Chris Allermann -
Joe Shen -
Jon Lyons -
Jonathan Nichols -
Richard J. Sears -
Rob Nelson -
Wes Hardaker