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Re: Backbone Monitoring Tools

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Thompson)
Tue Mar 28 18:48:25 2006

Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:46:32 -0800
From: Bill Thompson <Billt@Mahagonny.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <c6f8c0e90603281513u25ef33fas55e0ab0c48250a6f@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:13:23 -0800
"Ashe Canvar" <acanvar@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi All,
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> I want a simple backbone monitor for my 5 datacenters. My "backbone"
> consists of  redundant IPSEC/GRE tunnnels.
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> At the very least I want to ping, traceroute and transfer a small file
> every few minutes over all IPSEC links. I am sure there are products
> that do this already, but I am having a hard time finding any.

Take a look at Nagios (http://www.nagios.org/) for active monitoring and Cr=
icket
(http://cricket.sourceforge.net/) which uses RRDtool to monitor throughput =
like MRTG, but is a little easier to configure.

Good Luck,
--=20
Bill Thompson
BillT@Mahagonny.com

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