[51364] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Traffic Threshold monitoring?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Popovitch)
Mon Aug 26 03:25:35 2002
From: "Jim Popovitch" <jimpop@rocketship.com>
To: "Rob Mitzel" <rmitzel@peer1.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 03:17:31 -0400
In-Reply-To: <003401c24ccd$659d27c0$9d5f4f18@shaw.ca>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Hi Rob,
Micromuse's Netcool/USM (Usage Service Monitors) will allow you to monitor
traffic on a per user or per port (type) basis. The USMs allow you to
monitor and generate notifications for defined thresholds and usage
patterns.
Here is a URL to a more complete spec sheet:
http://www.micromuse.com/downloads/pdf_lit/USMs.pdf
Note: I work for Micromuse as a systems engineer, managing the integration
of our products at our customers' facilities.
-Jim P.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner- [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Rob Mitzel
> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 2:54 AM
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Traffic Threshold monitoring?
>
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Quick question. We're currently using MRTG to monitor traffic on a
> number of cisco switches connected to various customers. Now, this is
> all great and everything, except there's no real way to monitor if a
> customer's traffic goes completely out of whack (i.e. they start
> hammering 20 mbps instead of 300kbps) without manually checking MRTG
> every few minutes (and that'd be kinda time-consuming, you'd think.) We
> also show individual MRTG pages to our customer base via some handy mods
> we made.
>
> So my question is...what's out there that will allow us to check
> thresholds on traffic, and notify us if needed? We do have monitoring
> stations, running CastleRock SNMPc software. We have it set up to tell
> us when there's broadcast storms and suff, but I've never seen anything
> for actual traffic monitoring.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> -Rob.
>
