Network Monitoring Softeware

[winkshog]

Look at buying a network monitoring tool. We have looked at Iris a bit spendy. What programs do the rest of this form use. One thing that I need it to do is bandwidth utilization. Doing the big brother thing and seeing what the use are doing on the network. That way we can see if it is internet usage or slow server.

any help would be great

wink

 

[Provogeek]

Great tools, but they don't come cheap;

http://www.asl-solarwinds.co.uk/

http://www.adremsoft.com/index.php

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Brent Schmidt Certified nut case
Senior Network Engineer

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[LawnBoy]

Or, you can put in HP Procurve switches and use the free Procurve Manager. I'm absolutely thrilled with the stuff.

 

[ITsmyfault]

Lots of options..
- Speaking of Big Brother.. You can use the OS program Big Brother to monitor your LAN.

You can also run the MRTG extensions for Netware and then run MRTG against your servers. I've run it here with no problems on 5.1 and am about to try it on 6.5.

you can also run MRTG against the switch port if all you want is B/W. That's good for 5min avg in & out. (just remember that "out" and "in" are reversed when you do this.. I use MRTG for basic "are things up and normal looking?" checks. If you need something spikier (real-time-ish), you probably want Cricket. Google on it. There is a users group etc.

I use a combo of Adrem's Server Manager (great util!!) and MRTG here and it keeps me up on what's going down..

Also on the Open Source side of network monitoring is:

http://www.nagios.org/about.php