From: dusth@comcast.net
Date: Fri Jun 24 2005 - 12:54:26 GMT-3
Have you used solarwinds?It's great.
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> We used about 80 copies of Netwatch in my last job very easy to use.
> http://www.crannog-software.com there is a free trial version on the
> site.
>
> Regards
> Kevin
>
> >Thanks for the feedback, im looking at a simple solution, with not any
> >programming or unix involved, something that will run easily on windows.
> >sincerely,
> >John
> >
> > On 6/24/05, Lee Carter wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I typically use (for smaller companies)
> >>
> >>Cacti at centeral site to get a snapshot of all sites
> >>and their utalization.
> >>
> >>If a site is high on bandwidth utalization and I need
> >>more info I deploy a small linux box running ntop
> >>(http://www.ntop.org/ntop.html) and that tells me the
> >>utalization by user and by application in a graphical
> >>format. I will also install IPTraff which is a great
> >>CLI utility for seeing top talkers in a text based
> >>format. Real handy if you are SSH'ing into the remote
> >>linux box and wanting to do sniffer traces or advanced
> >>troublehsooting. (Just remember to deny SSH to the
> >>local linux box as you will always look like the top
> >>talker. (or possibly come in on a second interface..
> >>really depends on your topology.
> >>
> >>Other than that you may want to consider for your
> >>centeral site a local TFTP Server, Syslog Server
> >>(Syslog-NG), Radius for centeralized authentication,
> >>NTP Server and running Expect or some other
> >>interactive programming language so that you can run
> >>ad-hoc scripts on all your routers to change banners,
> >>passwords... ect automatically.
> >>
> >>HTH
> >>
> >>Lee
> >>
> >>
> >>--- john matijevic wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hello Team,
> >>>I have evaluated the following products already:
> >>>mrtg
> >>>cacti
> >>>ciscoworks
> >>>Does anyone know of any other bandwidth
> >>>utilization programs, that they
> >>>prefer over others?
> >>>Sincerely,
> >>>
> >>>--
> >>>John Matijevic, CCIE #13254
> >>>U.S. Installation Group
> >>>Senior Network Engineer
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> >>>305-321-6232 (cell)
> >>>
> >>>
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> >John Matijevic, CCIE #13254
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