[76950] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Measure overall network availability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vicky Rode)
Fri Jan 7 09:24:25 2005
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 06:23:55 -0800
From: Vicky Rode <vickyr@socal.rr.com>
Reply-To: vickyr@socal.rr.com
To: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com>
Cc: NANGO <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1105098106.3333.18.camel@blue>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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Jim Popovitch wrote:
| On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 12:09 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
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|>Maybe maintain a few 1U colo boxes (cheap!) in data centers on
|>selected networks around the world, from where you want to measure
|>reachablity .. run nothing except nagios or some other monitoring app
|>for measuring availablity of services like http, smtp, etc that you
|>want to know are available or not,
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| I've often wondered, as I work intimately with NMS software, just how
| much cross network traffic is "are you there?" related. Would it have a
| positive impact on overall net performance if everyone just turned off
| all internetwork status polling?
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depends on the polling period.
regards,
/vicky
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| <ducking>
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| -Jim P.
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