[117399] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Intelligent network monitoring systems (commercial/open source,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Drew Weaver)
Fri Sep 11 15:09:54 2009
From: Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com>
To: 'Charles Wyble' <charles@thewybles.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:08:44 -0400
In-Reply-To: <4AAA9FE8.9080105@thewybles.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Ah, I was mainly interested in an Orion like system that actually has all o=
f that kind of worked-in.
Thanks for the heads up.
-Drew
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From: Charles Wyble [mailto:charles@thewybles.com]=20
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 3:07 PM
To: Drew Weaver
Cc: NANOG list
Subject: Re: Intelligent network monitoring systems (commercial/open source=
, what have you)
Most of these threads usually result in telling the poster to RTFM with=20
a link to it :) I'm too lazy to link the manual. :)
c-nsp has extensive archives with lots of questions about various=20
specific SNMP mibs that weren't immediately evident from RTFM.
It all comes down to SNMP to the best of my knowledge.
Drew Weaver wrote:
> Howdy,
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> Can anyone suggest a network monitoring system that knows the difference =
between a cisco 1701 and a GSR 12810/6500, etc?=20
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> What I mean is, many times these days there are several different sub sys=
tems you have to monitor inside of a router/switch and not just interface u=
tilization, the "CPU", and the "RAM".
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> Statistics such as CEF utilization, fabric utilization, PFC/DFC, various =
line card statistics, etc?
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> Can anyone recommend anything other than "customize MRTG a lot" that we c=
an use to get a better look into these systems?
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> thanks,
> -Drew
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