[117400] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Intelligent network monitoring systems (commercial/open
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Pitcock)
Fri Sep 11 15:12:27 2009
From: William Pitcock <nenolod@systeminplace.net>
To: Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com>
In-Reply-To: <F3318834F1F89D46857972DD4B411D70013165373B@EXCHANGE.thenap.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:10:13 -0500
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 14:59 -0400, Drew Weaver wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> Can anyone suggest a network monitoring system that knows the difference between a cisco 1701 and a GSR 12810/6500, etc?
>
> What I mean is, many times these days there are several different sub systems you have to monitor inside of a router/switch and not just interface utilization, the "CPU", and the "RAM".
>
> Statistics such as CEF utilization, fabric utilization, PFC/DFC, various line card statistics, etc?
>
> Can anyone recommend anything other than "customize MRTG a lot" that we can use to get a better look into these systems?
We use Cacti for this purpose, but it still requires creating custom
datasources for the vendor-specific SNMP MIBs.
William
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