[100658] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: monitoring tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Regnauld)
Wed Oct 31 17:51:36 2007
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:49:39 +0100
From: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@catpipe.net>
To: Bill Fenner <fenner@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <ed6d469d0710311418i3904a56br201a07b52afd839a@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Bill Fenner (fenner) writes:
>
> On 10/30/07, Nesser, Phil <nesser@amazon.com> wrote:
> > 2. Open Source Tools that you use or would recommend (I know the obvious smokeping, mrtg, nagios).
>
> I don't see netdisco mentioned in this space very much, but I
> recommend it for the "what is plugged into what" question - both in an
> enterprise environment ("where is this misbehaving MAC address?") and
> a data center ("which port was that server plugged into on the
> switch?").
Some of the Metanav features actually do this, but yes
NetDisco is quite useful (especially its Perl modules are invaluable
when doing configuration management across the bogos^H^Hvariety
of Cisco equipment out there).
