www.netsaint.org Nuff said Scott Baldwin Network Administrator http://www.dmaholdings.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Berger, Gary" <Gary.Berger@dowjones.com> To: "John Starta" <john@starta.org>; "Lee Watterworth" <lwatterworth@rim.net> Cc: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 6:45 AM Subject: RE: Monitoring/Trending Software -- Which Package(s) do you use?

Actually you probably need to look at VitalNet.. This is a competing

product

to Concorde NetHealth... It provides all the RMON2 and MIB polling and can be setup with thresholds... Depending on what you are looking for you may still want to look at mrtg and rrd which can poll mib devices as well as execute scripts based on min/masx thresholds.

-G Gary Berger Internal Consultant, Principal Dow Jones & Company Enterprise Network Services

-----Original Message----- From: John Starta [mailto:john@starta.org] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 9:23 PM To: Lee Watterworth Cc: 'nanog@merit.edu' Subject: Re: Monitoring/Trending Software -- Which Package(s) do you use?

Lee,

Lucent's VitalSuite (either SP or Enterprise) software is definitely worth a look. You can find detailed information about it on their web site: http://www.lucentnps.com/software/

jas

At 05:44 PM 2/20/01 -0500, Lee Watterworth wrote:

...

I have been handed the task of finding a monitoring/trending package for our network and systems.

I will be looking at the package's collection mechanism for flexibility (snmp gets, traps, rmon), and the variety/configurability of the reports it can produce. The package should be able to provide (configurable) alerts when threshholds are met/surpassed.

I have been evaluating Concord's eHealth Suite, and would like to evaluate other options before I commit to a particular package.

Any feedback would be great.

-Lee.