WAN monitoring

• May 9, 2007

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JayAre

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Does anyone use anything to monitor your WAN link for remote offices?

Basically, I want to see when the WAN link goes down and if someone is copying files between sites, I want to see the WAN utilization go up.

 

• May 9, 2007

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mobrep

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There are tons of ways to do this.

Nagios can monitor the link.
MRTG can give you utilization info.
OpenNMS can give you both.

 

• May 9, 2007

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BobSutan

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^^^ what he said plus:

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• May 10, 2007

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also Solarwinds NPM, NetQoS Netflow Analyzer

 

• May 10, 2007

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http://www.zabbix.com/

 

• May 14, 2007

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blazeking

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I'm using OpenNMS to monitor our remote site bandwidth usage and node information.

 

• May 14, 2007

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gr0m45

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Intermapper.

http://dartware.com/network_monitoring_products/intermapper/index.html

Price is based on the number of nodes you want to monitor, so for you it should be pretty affordable. Free demo licenses are available.

 

• May 14, 2007

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I've been using Cacti + Nagios for some time now.

 

• May 14, 2007

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MorfiusX said:

I've been using Cacti + Nagios for some time now.

Click to expand...

I second this. I use Cacti more that Nagios but both give you a quick network health check (and both are open-source).

 

• May 15, 2007

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JayAre

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I'm a complete newb when it comes to MySql and php. I know ZERO about both.

Is this guide really all that I need? http://www.cacti.net/downloads/docs/html/install_windows.html

Also, how the heck do I install PHP? As much as I know about Active Directory and networking...I feel pretty stupid because I know nothing about programing or web stuff.

 

• May 15, 2007

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Follow along Cacti's Linux guide. It's fairly strait forward. Cacti is easier to set up on Linux than Windows. Just get an old spare box and play around for a while. That's the easiest way to figure it out.

 

• May 15, 2007

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I would think you could also use NMap for this as well. I don't know monitoring software as well as security software.

 

• May 18, 2007

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JayAre

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The Linux install guide calls for Fedora Core 2. I can't seem to find it on the web. I can find Fedora Core 5 and 6.

Can I use these instead?

 

• May 18, 2007

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The newer versions of Fedora should be OK. There might be some slight differences though.