Hi, I'm new here but I already have a quick question. What are the best diagnostic tools available to network operators today? Thanks for any info, Jane
Well, i dunno about everyone else, but i start screaming when my ICQ flower turns orange and starts spinning. </saracstic jerk> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pawlukiewicz Jane" <pawlukiewicz_jane@bah.com> To: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 9:50 AM Subject: Diagnostic Tools
PJ> Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 09:50:48 -0400 PJ> From: Pawlukiewicz Jane PJ> What are the best diagnostic tools available to network PJ> operators today? NANOG posts. ;-) -- Eddy Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - EverQuick Internet Division Phone: +1 (785) 865-5885 Lawrence and [inter]national Phone: +1 (316) 794-8922 Wichita ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:23:58 +0000 (GMT) From: A Trap <blacklist@brics.com> To: blacklist@brics.com Subject: Please ignore this portion of my mail signature. These last few lines are a trap for address-harvesting spambots. Do NOT send mail to <blacklist@brics.com>, or you are likely to be blocked.
JP> Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 13:42:41 -0400 JP> From: Pawlukiewicz Jane JP> Why do you think I joined this group? very smart man. In all seriousness, one has the basics like traceroute, ping, route servers, looking glasses, et cetera. However, those tools only give a view from a certain point or along a path... they provide a limited cross-section of a complex N-dimensional beast. Bill was right: Sean Donelan's posts are very handy. And I was only halfway being a smart-aleck... if one deduces that there just _has_ to be something anomalous, posting to NANOG is an amusingly low-tech "distributed layer-9" diagnostic. Note that I'm assuming you refer to internetwork diagnostics. If you seek intranetwork diagnostics, one has SNMP and other tools. -- Eddy Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - EverQuick Internet Division Phone: +1 (785) 865-5885 Lawrence and [inter]national Phone: +1 (316) 794-8922 Wichita ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:23:58 +0000 (GMT) From: A Trap <blacklist@brics.com> To: blacklist@brics.com Subject: Please ignore this portion of my mail signature. These last few lines are a trap for address-harvesting spambots. Do NOT send mail to <blacklist@brics.com>, or you are likely to be blocked.
I've seen the usual list of HP Openview/Ciscoworks (bad name)/Big Brother. I've used Netsaint at 2 installations. http://www.netsaint.org. Only problem is they are changing their name to nagios due to a request from the SAINT people. The latest development version of netsaint is at http://www.nagios.org Really good program and you can usually set it up pretty quick. With the plugins you can have it monitor just about anything you want. I know it supports monitoring: smtp,pop,nntp,ping,mysql,radius,ldap,disks,ntp,oracle,load,ircd,swap...and on and on. Don't let the beta in the version fool you. It's not just beta quality. Gerald P.S. Long time listener first time poster. On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Pawlukiewicz Jane wrote:
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