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Intelligent network monitoring systems (commercial/open source, what have you)
- Subject: Intelligent network monitoring systems (commercial/open source, what have you)
- From: nenolod at systeminplace.net (William Pitcock)
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:10:13 -0500
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]>
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 14:59 -0400, Drew Weaver wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> Can anyone suggest a network monitoring system that knows the difference between a cisco 1701 and a GSR 12810/6500, etc?
>
> What I mean is, many times these days there are several different sub systems you have to monitor inside of a router/switch and not just interface utilization, the "CPU", and the "RAM".
>
> Statistics such as CEF utilization, fabric utilization, PFC/DFC, various line card statistics, etc?
>
> Can anyone recommend anything other than "customize MRTG a lot" that we can use to get a better look into these systems?
We use Cacti for this purpose, but it still requires creating custom
datasources for the vendor-specific SNMP MIBs.
William
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