Network Monitoring System - Recommendations?

Sat Oct 30 11:30:41 UTC 2004

>>>3)       Bandwidth reporting (or integration with an MRTG-type app)
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>>http://cricket.sourceforge.net/
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>You can also do this with Nagios now too.. with APAN.
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>http://apan.sourceforge.net/
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>It's kind of cool. :D

There's more than one way to do it with Nagios:

http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Charts.1720.0.html

I'm using nagiostat myself, which churns out graphs like:

http://nagios.windchannel.com/nagiostat/nagiostat.cgi?graph_name=westst-cr1-ser30

I just set it up yesterday so there's not much polling data yet. I like it 
with MRTG/cricket better, actually - you can see a few blank spots where 
checks got delayed due to other outages, and then there's no info to use. 
MRTG/cricket just runs off cron, which means it hardly misses a beat.

Rob Nelson

Rob Nelson
ronelson at vt.edu