Re: Network Monitoring

I hope you guys heard of SNMP traps :)

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Bill Mckenzie <bmckenzie_at_hotmail.com> wrote:

> Sure. Say this is a trading floor environment with external brokerage
> firms. If there is latency normally of 20ms and there is an issue that
> causes that to be 50ms or more for an amount of time, trading information
> may be invalid and someone could be looking for compensation. Today,
> Reactive troubleshooting must now be done to figure out what happened and
> traced back to network, server or application. With the 5 minute trending,
> that is a process that may or may not produce a good answer. They are aware
> of the impact of constant polling on the network.
>
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> On 2009-05-09 08:21:46 -0400 Dale Shaw <dale.shaw_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Perhaps you could elaborate on the "Milliseconds delay can cost money
> > in this case" aspect, so people fully appreciate the requirement. It's
> > not as though collecting data every 5 minutes means you lose
> > visibility of everything that happens in between polling cycles, but
> > clearly interface stats like bits per second get averaged out.
> >
> > Have you considered the impact of such frequent polling, both in terms
> > of management traffic and managed device performance overhead?
> >
> > cheers,
> > Dale
> >
> > On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Bill Mckenzie <bmckenzie_at_hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> The critical needs are ability to scale but just as important, polling
> in
> >> 1/5/10 second intervals. Milliseconds delay can cost money in this case,
> so
> >> it's very important for constant polling.
> >>
> >> On 2009-05-09 07:22:22 -0400 Dale Shaw <dale.shaw_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> We use Statseeker in a couple of managed networks --
> >>> http://www.statseeker.com
> >>>
> >>> It does a really good job, scales very well and is super easy to
> >>> integrate, but data is collected and reported in five minute
> >>> intervals.
>
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