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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>We actually use it now and its fine for
what it does – however, I don’t think it provides a real integrated
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Erik Amundson
[mailto:chauncy@myevilempire.net] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, November 04, 2004
11:21 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Richard J. Sears; Charlie
Khanna - NextWeb<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> nanog@merit.edu<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: Network Monitoring
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Not a lot of people seem to be using it,
but at my organization, we just love WhatsUp Gold by IPSwitch.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>We first started using it about 4 years ago, when it was a
very simple product that pretty much just did SNMP and ping-polling. Now,
it's a much more advanced system that can do loads of things...</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Check it out....www.ipswitch.com</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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owner-nanog@merit.edu on behalf of Richard J. Sears<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thu 11/4/2004 9:11 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Charlie Khanna - NextWeb<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> nanog@merit.edu<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: Network Monitoring
System - Recommendations?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Hi Charlie -<br>
<br>
We use JFFNMS here (<a href="http://www.jffnms.org/">http://www.jffnms.org/</a>).<br>
<br>
We have it monitoring BGP with our 6 backbone providers, all of our T1's<br>
(300 or so), DSL lines, dedicated servers, backing up all of our router<br>
configs, talking to our F5s, pretty much everything you are asking for.<br>
We use it extensively to grab traps and notify my NOC of any problems.<br>
Overall I would say that it is monitoring over 15,000 connections and<br>
pieces of hardware.<br>
<br>
We have its bandwidth monitoring and tracking talking directly to our<br>
billing engine and allow our customers the ability to log into it and<br>
view all of their stats as well.<br>
<br>
We don't use it to monitor uptime as we utilize different hardware for<br>
that but my guess is that with some minor tweaking it could do that as<br>
well.<br>
<br>
Hope this helps.<br>
<br>
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 00:01:42 -0700<br>
"Charlie Khanna - NextWeb" <charlie@nextweb.net> wrote:<br>
<br>
> Hi - I was interested in finding out what software applications other ISPs<br>
> are using for network monitoring? For example:<br>
><br>
> <br>
><br>
> 1) Overall network health - uptime
reports<br>
><br>
> 2) Backup router config automatically<br>
><br>
> 3) Bandwidth reporting (or integration
with an MRTG-type app)<br>
><br>
> 4) SNMP trap support (BGP/OSPF session
drops - emails out)<br>
><br>
> 5) Database back end (port info into
or over to other apps)<br>
><br>
> <br>
><br>
> I'm just looking for something well rounded for a small ISP. I've
heard<br>
> about OpenNMS and other apps but I'd like to get everyone's feedback.<br>
> Thanks!<br>
><br>
> <br>
><br>
> -Charlie<br>
><br>
> <br>
><br>
<br>
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