Advice on monitoring 2 Netgear FSM726 switches with SNMP

[centraladminman]

I have 2 Netgear FSM726 managed switches and I think I have some network conjestion. I would like to use SNMP to monitor both the switches and gather some useful info. I have never really used SNMP and know very little about it. Can anyone suggest any good free SNMP utilities? Also what OID's should I monitor to troubleshoot network traffic and conjestion?

 

[gdvissch]

I would use MRTG as it is free an very complete. It will give you the usage per port.

for windows you can find a version here:

http://www.openxtra.co.uk/freestuff/mrtg-xtra.php

for Linux, it comes with most distributions or can be downloaded from

http://www.mrtg.org

directly

You can also find tools to preconfigure (or discover) your network and based on this use the correct OID's. However I think switch port are fairly standard (interface table)

G.