Re: Network Monitoring Tools

[Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net>]

        I have a beat of my network monitoring program that I've written
slowly over the past 2 years available for ftp also, you can teach it
things like network dependencies, single points of failure fairly simply
in a easy to use configuration file, it can check imap, pop3, smtp, nntp
and other services.. I wasn't going to post something to the lists until
I had done some more rewrites to some sections of code, but people should
feel free to test it out and comment on it.. You can get it from

        ftp://puck.nether.net/pub/jared

        Feel free to contact me directly about any problems you have with
it.

        - jared

David Hares - ADP Autonet boldly claimed:
> I would like to solicit recommendations for network monitoring utilities. 
> We are attempting to monitor around a thousand nodes (and growing).  We're
> using SunNet Manager since we're primarily a Sun shop.  The problem is
> it's taking a full time programmer (me) to keep up with the changes in our
> net.  It doesn't seem like it ought to take that much effort.  The
> operations staff is competent and ought to be able to configure a
> monitoring utility.  Also, SunNet seems to be a cpu hog.  At the rate it
> uses up cpu, I'll need a giga-SPARC by next year. 
>
> So, the question of the day is what's in use and really works ?  I'm not
> enamored of cute GUI interfaces, particularly ones that try to draw my
> network out before giveing any useful information.  Among other problems,
> running these over a less than wonderful connection to my hotel room is
> painful.  Something that scales well into multipe thousands of nodes would
> be nice.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>  --
> David L. Hares, Senior Staff Programmer
> AutoNet                                    Phone: (313) 995-6539
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