[128968] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: on network monitoring and security - req for monitoring tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?utf-8?Q?"Fran=C3=A7ois_D._M=C3=A)
Sat Aug 21 19:51:04 2010
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From: =?utf-8?Q?"Fran=C3=A7ois_D._M=C3=A9nard"?= <francois@menards.ca>
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:50:59 -0400
To: "travis+ml-nanog@subspacefield.org" <travis+ml-nanog@subspacefield.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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Mikrotik TheDude
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On 2010-08-21, at 17:57, travis+ml-nanog@subspacefield.org wrote:
> Hi, I'm putting together a book on security*, and wanted some expert
> input onto network monitoring solutions...
>=20
> http://www.subspacefield.org/security/security_concepts.html
>=20
> Nagios, Net-SNMP, ifgraph, cacti, OpenNMS... any others?
>=20
> Any summaries of when one is better than the other?
>=20
> Any suggestions on section 13-15? I imagine I'll offend some of you
> by not distinguishing between system and network adminsitration,
> but... it's a small section right now, maybe if it grows.
>=20
> OT:
> I had issues with understanding MIBs and SNMP tools... specifically,
> I wanted to query and graph the pf-specific MIB... any suggested places
> to ask? Do I ask on the Net-SNMP list, or is there a better place?
>=20
> Also, cacti... seemed to behave differently based on whether the
> target was Linux-based or BSD-based... I suppose the cacti-users is
> the right place to ask, but if anyone has any suggestions, please LMK.
> I hate the UI.
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