Re: Network Monitoring

Research the Netscout Ingenuous probes. I work for a financial comapny
a well. And believe me, milliseconds and in some enviroments
microseconds are the difference between your firm executing the trade
or someone else. We got the netscout probes for that reason. Pending
on the probe, we get granularity to a microseconds. This way when you
have tons of data that have microburts, you can record that data and
determine what is happening proactively. Again, I work with them now,
but if you look around you may see similar tools. Be advised, at least
with Netscouts, they are very expensive. But if your in the financial
space, time is money, and time lost troubleshooting and diagnosing
production problems you could gave seen ahead will likely cost your
firm money in the market.

On May 9, 2009, at 8:08 AM, 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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