[102889] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 3rd party network monitoring
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason LeBlanc)
Fri Mar 7 09:53:37 2008
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:51:47 -0500
From: Jason LeBlanc <jml@packetpimp.org>
To: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
CC: "John A. Kilpatrick" <john@hypergeek.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <47D070FB.4060007@spaghetti.zurich.ibm.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
One app I like a lot is Ping Plotter, but it only runs on Windows, so it
isn't good for remote monitoring. We do use it for some things,
however. I like the detailed traceroute / latency visualization it
has. It also has a hard time with a lot (100+) nodes being monitored.
SmokePing works well, but lacks detail in the form of traceroute.
Jeroen Massar wrote:
> John A. Kilpatrick wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Tom Sands wrote:
>>
>>> When we did get a hold of someone, they mentioned they could support
>>> simple ICMP requests.
>>
>> To them "simple" means it's just a ping check. They won't
>> montior/graph/care about latency.
>>
>> I was pondering creating a "smoke ping collective". Get a bunch of
>> guys to agree to run smokeping and monitor each other. That's a
>> great tool for visualizing changes in latency and works just as well
>> with ICMP as with HTTP.
>
> There is this really awesome project from RIPE (like usual ;)
>
> Please check, and start using RIPE TTM: http://www.ripe.net/ttm/
> See the site for presentations, tools, info, etc etc etc etc...
>
> Enjoy ;)
>
> Greets,
> Jeroen
>