Backbone Monitoring Tools

Tue Mar 28 23:46:32 UTC 2006

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:13:23 -0800
"Ashe Canvar" <acanvar at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I want a simple backbone monitor for my 5 datacenters. My "backbone"
> consists of  redundant IPSEC/GRE tunnnels.
> 
> 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 Cricket
(http://cricket.sourceforge.net/) which uses RRDtool to monitor throughput like MRTG, but is a little easier to configure.

Good Luck,
-- 
Bill Thompson
BillT at Mahagonny.com
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