Re: Network Related Tools

[Mark Teicher <mht3 () earthlink net>]

For a price IPSwitch is a bit pricey especially when attempting to 
monitor lots of servers, clients, etc.  Not an advisable solution for 
a commercial entity attempting to enter into a managed services or 
managed security services market segment.  The documentation for 
Nagios is well written and easy to understand.
MRTG can be cumbersome especially when one is pressured to produce 
nifty looking graphs for customers.  Not portal friendly.. :(

At 04:55 PM 7/7/2005, David Siles wrote:
> I strongly agree with Nagios, but it can be a little difficult to
> understand and to get up and running.  A commercial package that is
> really the best on Windows for this is IPSwitch's WhatsUp
> Gold/Professional or Somix Denika/WebNM pacakges.
>
> MRTG and NTOP are very good as well and OpenExtra over in the UK has
> developed, free GNU based installations for Windows that are
> prepackaged and install on Windows with IIS or with the included
> Apache installation.
>
> Can be found at http://www.openxtra.co.uk/products/freestuff.php
>
> Dave
>
> On 7/5/05, Mark Teicher <mht3 () earthlink net> wrote:
> >
> > Nagios is an open source host, service and network monitoring program.
> >
> >
> > http://www.nagios.org/about/screenshots.php
> >
> > At 03:22 PM 7/3/2005, Nuno Carvalho wrote:
> > >Hy,
> > >
> > >I'm looking for 2 network-related tools.
> > >
> > >1) a Network monitor SNMP capable, with a nice GUI interface.
> > >The all point is to have a tool that helps me watching the status of the
> > >network (routers, switch, servers, gateways, etc).
> > >
> > >2) a Switch/Router configurator - I don't know if this tool exist.
> > >I'm looking for a tool that (1) discover all switch/router in my LAN and
> > >(2)adding "plug-ins", give me chance to config switch/routers, no matter
> > >the manufacter (3COM, IBM, Cisco, etc)
> > >
> > >I'm first looking for OpenSource Software running on Windows SO.
> > >Linux OS is an option, paying for software, not for now.
> > >
> > >Cheers,
> > >Nuno Carvalho
> >
> >