Re: monitoring tools

[Phil Regnauld <regnauld () catpipe net>]

Bill Fenner (fenner) writes:
> On 10/30/07, Nesser, Phil <nesser () amazon com> wrote:
> > 2.  Open Source Tools that you use or would recommend (I know the obvious smokeping, mrtg, nagios).
>
> I don't see netdisco mentioned in this space very much, but I
> recommend it for the "what is plugged into what" question - both in an
> enterprise environment ("where is this misbehaving MAC address?") and
> a data center ("which port was that server plugged into on the
> switch?").

        Some of the Metanav features actually do this, but yes 
        NetDisco is quite useful (especially its Perl modules are invaluable
        when doing configuration management across the bogos^H^Hvariety
        of Cisco equipment out there).