RE: Monitoring the network: Routers

From: Ben Hicks (ben_at_sequenced.net)
Date: 07/24/03

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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 14:39:33 +0100

    We use RRDB (mrtgs big brother) to monitor and record usage for thousands of
    routers. It works perfectly fine for us and we have not had any noticable
    problems with it.

    Ben

    -----Original Message-----
    From: D N Vaidya [mailto:dnvaidya@rilinfo.net]
    Sent: 23 July 2003 16:32
    To: 'Ben Hicks'; security-basics@securityfocus.com;
    NBenigno@atchealthcare.com; stephen@unix.za.net
    Subject: RE: Monitoring the network: Routers

    Dear friends,

    I am working with ISP for our own group of companies with fullfledge ISP
    setup of thousands of Cisco devices. We were using MRTG but later on we
    found that MRTG has some limitations and somtimes it shows falls traffic.

    We started using Solarwinds evaluation version and now troubleshooting is
    like a piece of cake. Only thing is it is quite costly but it is worth. It
    is good in it that u can have web interface for monitoring so no restriction
    of monitoring console.

    Sincerely,
    D.N.Vaidya

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Ben Hicks [mailto:ben@sequenced.net]
    Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 9:19 PM
    To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
    Subject: FW: Monitoring the network: Routers

    If you're willing to spend the time, but not the cash, MRTG will be the way
    to go.
    It's free but to get it working on a win2k box can take a bit of time, if
    you haven't done it before. You can get some nice results from it, and it's
    fully customisable. You will have to experiment with SNMP requests to get
    the information you need.

    Something like Orion will work out of the box. It will monitor everything
    you need, and it will provide you with wizards to help get everything setup.
    Not only will it monitor your routers, but it can also monitor any device
    that supports SNMP - IE servers. All this does come at a price though. If
    memory servers me correctly I think the lowest version is about ?1500. This
    runs with an access backend.

    So really it depends on how much you want to spend. If you have the cash,
    and don't want to spend a lot of time messing around, go with Orion. If you
    don't have the money and you don't minde spending quite a bit of time, go
    with MRTG or RRDB (MRTGs big brother)

    Ben

    -----Original Message-----
    From: stephen at unix dot za dot net [mailto:stephen@unix.za.net]
    Sent: 15 July 2003 11:50
    To: Potter, Tim
    Cc: Nick Benigno; security-basics@securityfocus.com
    Subject: RE: Monitoring the network: Routers

    well i dont know too much about routers and that, but i spose i'm never
    gonna get anywhere without posting, so im trying to post more often now ;)

    surely you're router supports SNMP?

    i'm not too sure on the full capabilities of SNMP, but thats what i use
    for MRTG (bandwidth monitoring/usage app... makes pretty little graphs
    etc).

    what exactly are you trying to monitor?

    stephen.

    On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Potter, Tim wrote:

    > There are some free ones, but if you are looking for features and slick
    > setup, interfaces, charts, etc. you can go cheap with SolarWinds.
    > We use it and it works great. A standalone license to monitor unlimited
    > devices is about $995.
    > However, it doesn't report traffic type that I am aware of.
    > www.solarwinds.net
    > Check out the Engineer's edition toolset.
    > -Tim
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Nick Benigno [mailto:NBenigno@atchealthcare.com]
    > Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 2:10 PM
    > To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
    > Subject: Monitoring the network: Routers
    >
    >
    > I am interesting in getting some ideas as to which packages are out
    > there and recommended to monitor a router.
    >
    > Like the following stats:(in real-time)
    >
    > CPU Utilization
    > Bandwidth Utilization
    > Packet Count
    > Packets in Error
    > Type of Traffic
    >
    > It would have to be able to work with:
    > 1> Intel Express Routers(frame relay) ie 9515
    > 2> Netopia/Caymen Routers(dsl/sdsl/idsl) ie r3100
    > 3> Cisco Routers. ie2600
    >
    > Considering Points:
    > 1>Ease of setup
    > 2>Report capability
    > 3>Functionality / Compatibility
    >
    >
    > I am looking for a Windows based product, but open to other solutions as
    > well.
    >
    > Thanks in advance,
    >
    > Nick
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The Gartner Group just put Neoteris in the top of its Magic Quadrant,
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about an hour, with no client, server changes, or ongoing maintenance.
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The Gartner Group just put Neoteris in the top of its Magic Quadrant,
while InStat has confirmed Neoteris as the leader in marketshare.
Find out why, and see how you can get plug-n-play secure remote access in
about an hour, with no client, server changes, or ongoing maintenance.
Visit us at: http://www.neoteris.com/promos/sf-6-9.htm
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