[56132] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network monitoring/IDS rant - What's hot what's not?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher McCrory)
Wed Feb 26 11:26:40 2003
From: Christopher McCrory <chrismcc@pricegrabber.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Cc: "Christopher J. Wolff" <chris@bblabs.com>
In-Reply-To: <002201c2dd55$a2837cc0$0300a8c0@cartman>
Date: 26 Feb 2003 08:26:05 -0800
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Hello...
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 21:12, Christopher J. Wolff wrote:
> Tivoli, Openview, Unicenter, ipmonitor, mrtg, nagios?
>
> There are many network monitoring options but each option has its
> pitfalls. I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that any software
> Computer Associates publishes is designed for the criminally insane.
> However, there 'has' to be something that offers more visibility into a
> major WAN than MRTG/RRDTOOL.
>
Intermapper http://www.intermapper.com
You can create charts showing realtime bandwith usage on each of your
routers. I also use it to check bandwidth on my web servers. With a
glance, you can tell everything is "OK", "abnormal", etc.
No IDS, but it is great as a enhancement/replacement for
mrtg/rrdtool/nagios. ( I run all three)
<disclaimer>
No affiliation w/ intermapper
just a happy customer for ~6 years
<snip>
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