3rd party network monitoring

Fri Mar 7 14:51:47 UTC 2008

One app I like a lot is Ping Plotter, but it only runs on Windows, so it 
isn't good for remote monitoring.  We do use it for some things, 
however.  I like the detailed traceroute / latency visualization it 
has.  It also has a hard time with a lot (100+) nodes being monitored.  
SmokePing works well, but lacks detail in the form of traceroute.

Jeroen Massar wrote:
> John A. Kilpatrick wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Tom Sands wrote:
>>
>>> When we did get a hold of someone, they mentioned they could support 
>>> simple ICMP requests.
>>
>> To them "simple" means it's just a ping check.  They won't 
>> montior/graph/care about latency.
>>
>> I was pondering creating a "smoke ping collective".  Get a bunch of 
>> guys to agree to run smokeping and monitor each other.  That's a 
>> great tool for visualizing changes in latency and works just as well 
>> with ICMP as with HTTP.
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>  Jeroen
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