Re: Monitoring/Trending Software -- Which Package(s) do you use?

["Scott Baldwin" <scott () beginc com>]

www.netsaint.org

Nuff said

Scott Baldwin
Network Administrator
http://www.dmaholdings.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Berger, Gary" <Gary.Berger () dowjones com>
To: "John Starta" <john () starta org>; "Lee Watterworth"
<lwatterworth () rim net>
Cc: <nanog () merit edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 6:45 AM
Subject: RE: Monitoring/Trending Software -- Which Package(s) do you use?


> Actually you probably need to look at VitalNet.. This is a competing
product
> to Concorde NetHealth... It provides all the RMON2 and MIB polling and can
> be setup with thresholds... Depending on what you are looking for you may
> still want to look at mrtg and rrd which can poll mib devices as well as
> execute scripts based on min/masx thresholds.
>
>
> -G
> Gary Berger
> Internal Consultant, Principal
> Dow Jones & Company
> Enterprise Network Services
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Starta [mailto:john () starta org]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 9:23 PM
> To: Lee Watterworth
> Cc: 'nanog () merit edu'
> Subject: Re: Monitoring/Trending Software -- Which Package(s) do you
> use?
>
>
>
> Lee,
>
> Lucent's VitalSuite (either SP or Enterprise) software is definitely worth
> a look. You can find detailed information about it on their web site:
> http://www.lucentnps.com/software/
>
> jas
>
> At 05:44 PM 2/20/01 -0500, Lee Watterworth wrote:
>
> > I have been handed the task of finding a monitoring/trending package for
> > our network and systems.
> >
> > I will be looking at the package's collection mechanism for flexibility
> > (snmp gets, traps, rmon), and the variety/configurability of the reports
> > it can produce.  The package should be able to provide (configurable)
> > alerts when threshholds are met/surpassed.
> >
> > I have been evaluating Concord's eHealth Suite, and would like to
evaluate
> > other options before I commit to a particular package.
> >
> > Any feedback would be great.
> >
> > -Lee.